Reading Andy Warhol

While still studying pictorial design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Andy Warhol made his first documented contribution to a written text, a three-page story entitled Leroy, the Mexican Jumping Bean, by his friend and fellow artist, Philip Pearlstein. “Leroy was bought by a man who wanted to make his children happy. Leroy made the children happy. One day a bug crawled on top of Leroy’s shell and told him a...