V.A. Andy Warhol's Jazz Album Covers Volume 1

Everyone knows about The Velvet Underground & Nico cover or the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers, but Warhol actually designed more than 50 album covers over the course of his career. The four jazz albums collected in each box all come from that very exciting time in Warhol’s career (1954-58) when he, in addition to being a successful commercial designer, was also an up and coming fine artist. Through these covers, we can also see the evolution of Warhol’s “blotted ink” style, which would become a hallmark of his later work. The flowers on Johnny Griffin’s The Congregation, on the other hand, are an early example of his Flowers prints of the following decade. The calligraphic writing employed on some of the albums was done by Warhol’s mother. Her distinct handwriting would grace many of her son’s works over the years. 500 numbered copies! Included are: Thelonious Monk 'Monk', Count Basie 'Count Basie & His Orchestra', Jay Jay Johnson / Kai Winding / Bennie Green 'Trombone By Three' & Kenny Burrell 'Volume 2'