Andy Warhol on display in Burlington
Burlington, Vermont - January 19, 2010
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=11847870Several loaned photos showing Warhol dressed as a woman are lesser-known. The show's curator says they illustrate the artist's fascination with transgender people as being what he thought of as being the ultimate in sexual honesty and freedom.
Diary entries show Warhol worried his dressing in drag might lose him a commission from First Lady Nancy Reagan, but it did not. "A lot of Andy Warhol's contemporaries, when he first started out, the phrase they used was 'he was too swish.' 'Too swish' to be taken seriously as an artist. But he proved them wrong!" Marcereau DeGalan says.