Nikon (Trial Proof), Screenprint Artist Full board backing

Full board backing

and finally Ace Gallery Los Angeles in February 1977

with Warhol offering feedback and supervision to Smith on how his works should be printed on an almost daily basis

it is writer Bob Colacello—Bob “Cola” as Warhol suggested his name should be—who encouraged Smith to give Warhol the idea for applying diamond dust to his early 80s shoe series

Nikon (Trial Proof), Screenprint Artist Full board backingNikon (Trial Proof) is from the Homage to Andy Portfolio by Rupert Jasen Smith. Often mentioned but rarely discussed in detail, Rupert Jasen Smith (1953 1989) was Andy Warhols preferred master silkscreen printer and art director from roughly 1974 until his death in 1987. This grants Smith an essential role in the Warhol cannon, as Warhol produced roughly half of all his printed works in the decade leading up to this death. This was due to the