Warhol honed his drawing skills since his early childhood; he was encouraged to draw by his mother Julia Warhola who enrolled him in classes at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The artist would later win awards in High School for his drawings and he would go on to perfect his craft at the Carnegie Technical Institute (now Carnegie Mellon University) which he graduated from in 1949. He moved to New York City and, in the 1950's, filled his sketchbooks with freehand drawings of friends, still life objects and the whimsical subject matter that would define his early work.
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