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Creating an Icon: Andy Warhol through the Lens of David McCabe

Creating an Icon:
Andy Warhol through the Lens of David McCabe

David Mccabe

january 16 — february 21, 2026

David MCcabe

Photo of David Mccabe and his wife Susanne

David McCabe (1940–2021) was a British-born photographer whose career spanned fashion, editorial work, and portraiture. After studying at the Leicester Colleges of Art and Design, he moved to New York in the early 1960s, where he photographed for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Mademoiselle, and other leading publications.

In 1964, Andy Warhol privately commissioned McCabe to document a year of his life—a discreet collaboration that produced more than 2,500 images. Long overlooked, these photographs now stand as an essential visual record of Warhol’s early formation as both artist and public figure, and a rare document of the cultural landscape of mid-1960s New York.

David McCabe’s photographs have been in the following museums and galleries:
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; The Guggenheim Museums: New York City, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Kunstalle Wien, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves; The Whitney Museum, NYC; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; International Center of Photography, NYC; National Portrait Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Fukuoka Art Museum; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe; The Philip Johnson Glass House; The Dali Theatre-Museum; Musee de la Mode, Marseille; La Casa Encendida; Dali Exposition, Perpignan; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Auckland Gallery; Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Fahey / Klein Gallery; Vanderbilt University; The Way Out Gallery, Rensselaerville; Proud Gallery, London; Galleria Carla Sozzani; Menil Collection, Houston; The Grimaldi Forum, Monaco; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Norton Museum, Palm Beach; The Queens Museum, New York; The Pompidou-Metz; The Moderne Musee de Paris; The Carnegie Museum; Crystal Bridges Museum; The National Gallery of Victoria; The Tate, London; Cipolla Gallery, Aiken; The Norman Rockwell Museum; The Perez Museum, Miami; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk.