After hit Frida Kahlo show, Glen Ellyn museum spotlights another star: Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol poses in 1980 at the Jewish Museum in New York with pieces from his collection “Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century,” which will be on view in Glen Ellyn. (Bernard Gotfryd/Library of Congress/Prints & Photographs Division)

In the summer of 2021, a formerly little-known museum at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn presented a blockbuster exhibition of 25 paintings and drawings by famed Mexican painter Frida Kahlo from the Museo Dolores Omedo in Mexico City. It proved to be a huge hit, drawing 102,000 people from 43 countries and all 50 states. 

The immediate question afterward was what to do as a comparable follow-up. And the answer is a multifaceted look at the life and work of Andy Warhol, one of the most famous and influential artists of the second half of the 20th century. Titled simply “WARHOL,” the exhibition opens June 3 and runs through Sept. 10.