Coloring with Andy

Before becoming a Pop Art icon, during the 1950s Andy Warhol worked as a successful illustrator

in New York producing hundreds of drawings for advertising, record companies and fashion magazines. 

In 1961, right around the time of his first Campbell Soup paintings, the Edelman company commissioned 

Warhol to create a large format coloring book to give as a gift to its clients' children for Christmas. 

Andy drew a series of delightfully whimsical illustrations using his typical blotted line technique, 

which he claimed to have discovered accidentally when he spilled ink onto a sheet of paper 

and reproduced the stain motif by applying a second sheet onto it.

A Coloring Book was reprinted in 2007 by the French Editions Palette.

Sunday Safari - Gobbling bananas and chatting all day

Illustration by Violeta Lópiz 

Three Monkeys: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, 

1932 New Year's card by Takahashi Haruka, thanks to Aqua-Velvet

Another 1932 New Year's card by Takahashi Haruka, 

thanks to a great post by ephemera assemblyman

Gibbon by Ben Kirchner

Cover of A Monkey Tale by Berta & Elmer Hader, 1929

Cover of The Jungle Twins by Kurt Wiese, 1951

wait a second... I have to trace this one

Love on a limb painting by Charley Harper, 1989

Illustration by Józef Wilkon

Cover of Runaway Monkey by William Eller & Kathleen B. Hester, 1976,

thanks to missdesigndiva's Illustrations I like flickr set

Illustration from The Wild and woolly animal book by Dale Maxey, 1966

thanks again to Bonito Club's flickr illustration collection

Andy Warhol´s Children´s Book, 1983, thanks to gramatologia

Monkey card by Fold at Supermarket

Monkey by Alexander Calder, 1928

Cover of Graphis 192

Detail from A Sensorium by Walton Ford