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Sydenham chorea
- As a child, Warhol suffered from Sydenham chorea, a neurological disorder commonly known as St. Vitus dance, characterized by involuntary movements.
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Feb 21, 2017 · Dr. Ryan has found that the surgeon who performed Warhol’s final operation was working on someone with almost 15 years of gallbladder trouble and a family history of the same — Warhol’s father...
As a child, Warhol suffered from Sydenham chorea, a neurological disorder commonly known as St. Vitus dance, characterized by involuntary movements. When the disorder occasionally kept him home from school, Warhol would read comics and Hollywood magazines and play with paper cutouts.
Mar 9, 2022 · Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Aug. 6, 1928, Andy had spells of ill health. As a child, Andy was diagnosed with Sydenham's chorea. He moved to New York in 1949, working as an illustrator and adman before further expanding his career into the arts, music, publishing, and beyond.
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Aug 18, 2022 · Raised by their parents Alice de Forest and Francis Sedgwick, the eight Sedgwick children came of age in a wealthy household, first on Long Island and then on ranches in California.
- The son of Slovakian immigrants, he was born in Pittsburgh and named Andrew Warhola. He later dropped the “a” in Warhola to make it sound more “American.”
- He was raised Byzantine Catholic and regularly attended mass for most of his life. He even had an audience with the Pope.
- He was the first in his family to go to college, at what is now known as Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he studied pictorial design.
- In 1956 the Museum of Modern Art in New York rejected Warhol’s offer to donate one of his shoe drawings after the museum included it—or one very similar—in an exhibition.
When 8-year-old Andy Warhol made odd shaking movements in school, he was teased and bullied by his peers. When the movements persisted and worsened, he.
Jun 1, 2020 · In 1972, at Finch College, in New York, Warhol did his “vacuum-cleaner piece,” which involved his vacuuming a patch of carpet in the college’s art gallery, signing the dust bag, propping it ...
