Museum wows with Warhol's animal side

By ROS KRASNY

Filed 9.08.06

JACKSON, Wyo. (Reuters) - Most art lovers agree that no artist captures the grandeur of the American West and its wildlife better than ... Andy Warhol?

The National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, is revealing an unknown side to the most famous of pop artists -- screenprints of species from mountain sheep and butterflies to gorillas to America's national symbol, the bald eagle.

Seeing the works of Warhol in a sandstone building perched on a sagebrush-covered hillside, visitors are left to wonder -- what's a New York party-boy doing in a place like this?

(Click & Read on courtsey of Reuters)

Photo Captions & Credits: Andy Warhol's "Endangered Species: Bald Eagle, 1983." The National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, is revealing an unknown side to the most famous of pop artists -- screenprints of species from mountain sheep and butterflies to gorillas to America's national symbol, the bald eagle. REUTERS/2006 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Handout