Framed Andy Warhol designed album cover The Painter by Paul Anka released on United Artist label in 1976.
Paul Anka’s 1976 album The Painter. It was the first album cover that made use of commissioned portrait paintings by Andy Warhol
Paul Anka was in that time of his career a Las Vegas performer. Warhol took over 70 Polaroid pictures of Anka. Most of them with a black vaquero-type hat, but also some with a white Stetson. Anka unbuttoned his shirt, to show a lot of chest hair. On a lot of pictures he has a pearly white smile. Anka commisioned 8 paintings in total. To produce these, Warhol only used 4 pictures of Anka with the black hat, and looking serious or pensive, never smiling.
