Archie (dog)
{{Short description|Andy Warhol and Jed Johnson's dog (1972-c. 1993)}}
{{Infobox animal
| name = Archie
| species = Dog
| gender = Male
| breed = Dachshund
| othername =
| known_for = Andy Warhol's pet
| birth_date = August 3, 1972
| namedafter = Archie Bunker
| owners = Andy Warhol
Jed Johnson
| image = Andy Warhol by Jack Mitchell.jpg
| caption = Andy Warhol and Archie by Jack Mitchell, 1973
}}
Archie was a dachshund owned by pop artist Andy Warhol and interior designer Jed Johnson.
Warhol treated Archie as his alter ego and depicted him in his works. Archie became a socialite, accompanying Warhol to photoshoots, parties, and European trips. A few years after they got Archie, Warhol and Johnson acquired another dachshund, Amos.
Life
After owning dozens of cats in the 1950s and 1960s, Andy Warhol's partner, Jed Johnson, convinced him they should get a dog in November 1972.{{Cite web |title=Business envelope with dog license and veterinary invoice (for Andy Warhol's dachshund, Archie) 1972 |url=https://warhol.netx.net/portals/warhol-exhibitions/#asset/102658 |website=The Warhol}} Johnson settled on a black and tan shorthaired dachshund puppy, which they named Archie. He was named after the wisecracking character Archie Bunker in the popular TV series All in the Family.{{Sfn|Colacello|1990|p=144}}
Warhol and Johnson doted on Archie. Warhol fed him Quarter Pounders from McDonald's, steak, sautéed liver, caviar, and rubbed Joy perfume on him.{{Sfn|Colacello|1990|p=159}}{{Cite journal |last=Colacello |first=Robert |date=January 1974 |title=The Liz and Andy Show |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_vogue_1974-01_163_1/mode/2up?q=warhol+archie+dachshund |journal=Vogue |volume=163 |issue=1 |pages=101, 133}}{{Cite news |last=Woods |first=Brenda |date=1976-07-20 |title=Chow Hounds |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-chow-hounds/172749102/ |access-date=2025-06-06 |work=Daily News |pages=33}} Archie wore a Tiffany's dog tag and a Hermès leash.{{Cite book |last=Winters |first=Renee M. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Hoarding_Impulse/B6DwCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=hermes |title=The Hoarding Impulse: Suffocation of the Soul |date=2015-06-19 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-54963-5 |pages=90 |language=en}} He was always carried about by Warhol, who urged him to talk.{{Sfn|Colacello|1990|p=144}} Archie accompanied Warhol to his studio, art openings, parties, and restaurants.{{Sfn|Colacello|1990|p=150}} Warhol would also bring him to press conferences as his "alter ego" and "would deflect questions to [Archie] that he did not want to answer."
In the Spring of 1973, Warhol and Archie traveled to Rome where Johnson was working with director Paul Morrissey on the films Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) and Blood for Dracula (1974) at Cinecittà Studios.{{Sfn|Colacello|1990|p=145}} They also visited France and Switzerland.{{Cite web |title=Certificate of examination (for Andy Warhol's dachshund, Archie, March 2, 1973) 1973 |url=https://warhol.netx.net/portals/warhol-exhibitions/#asset/102660 |website=The Warhol}} Warhol brought Archie to Rome when he filmed his scenes in the film The Driver's Seat (1974) in August 1973 and October 1973.{{Cite news |last=Suzy |date=October 9, 1973 |title=Suzy Says: A Dashing Dachshund |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-andy-warhol-and-arche-travel/153443211/ |work=Daily News |location=New York |pages=12}}{{Sfn|Colacello|1990|p=159}} By the age of 1, Archie had reportedly crossed the Atlantic at least 10 times.
Archie gained fame as Warhol's companion, and people recognized him on the street.{{Cite journal |date=November 1989 |title=Andy-isms: Highlights from a decade of interviews by Andy Warhol |journal=Interview |volume=19 |issue=11 |pages=90}} As a result, he had a high modeling fee. Warhol was a self-proclaimed stage mother and took Archie to photoshoots. They appeared in various publications such the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the Associated Press, L'Uomo Vogue, and Esquire.{{Cite web |title=Group Portrait with Accountant {{!}} Esquire {{!}} NOVEMBER 1974 |url=https://classic.esquire.com/article/1974/11/1/group-portrait-with-accountant |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=Esquire {{!}} The Complete Archive |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Kazickas |first=Jurate |date=1975-09-03 |title=Celebrity Chasing Warhol's Bag |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-olympian-andy-warhol-interview/162392715/ |access-date=2025-01-06 |work=The Olympian |pages=B7}} He also appeared with him in a Pioneer Electronics advertisement in 1974.{{Cite web |date=1974-12-20 |title=Pioneer - Andy Warhol's unfinished symphony. - printad 1973 |url=https://adland.tv/pioneer-andy-warhols-unfinished-symphony-printad-1973 |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=adland.tv |language=en}}File:57 E66 St Warhol home jeh.jpg neighborhood of Manhattan. In 1998, the townhouse was designated a cultural landmark.]]
By 1975, Warhol and Johnson had expanded their family by purchasing a light brown shorthaired dachshund puppy, Amos.{{Cite book |last=Wrbican |first=Matt |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_is_for_Archive/fBupDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=warhol+archie+amos+jed+family&pg=PA41&printsec=frontcover |title=A is for Archive: Warhol's World from A to Z |last2=Gopnik |first2=Blake |last3=Printz |first3=Neil |date=2019-01-01 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-23344-5 |pages=41 |language=en}} Amos and Archie were both Prestige Pets. Warhol often referred to Amos as Archie's dog.{{Cite journal |last=Warhol |first=Andy |date=October 1975 |title=David Cassidy |journal=Andy Warhol's Interview |volume=5 |issue=10 |pages=10, 12}}{{Cite news |last=Isenberg |first=Barbara |date=1977-02-24 |title=Andy Warhol Busy Being ... Andy Warhol |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-andy-warhol-and-ru/157195803/ |access-date=2025-02-08 |work=The Los Angeles Times |pages=lV}} He told socialite Lee Radziwill in the March 1975 issue of Interview magazine that he got Amos as a Christmas present for Archie. He also revealed that Archie had recently mated with a female dachshund Prestige Pet at the pet store and was "going to be a father."{{Cite journal |last=Warhol |first=Andy |date=March 1975 |title=Lee |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_interview_1975-03_5_3/page/n5/mode/2up?q=archie |journal=Andy Warhol's Interview |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=5}} "I took him over and he did his manly duty, and then the next day I brought Amos home, so that confused him, he thinks he got very quick results," Warhol said. "Unlike Archie who enjoyed the company of people and was very social, Amos was more like a regular dog," said Vincent Fremont, a member of Warhol's inner circle.{{Cite web |last=Woodward |first=Daisy |date=2013-08-06 |title=Andy Warhol's Cats and Dogs |url=https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/2913/andy-warhols-cats-and-dogs |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=AnOther |language=en}} Amos was photographed with Johnson and Warhol superstar Geraldine Smith in the February 1976 issue of Interview magazine.{{Cite journal |date=February 1976 |title=KissKissKissKissKiss |journal=Andy Warhol's Interview |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=25}}
Archie has been depicted in several paintings. Warhol painted a silkscreen portrait of Archie and Johnson.{{Cite book |last=Wrbican |first=Matt |url=http://archive.org/details/andywarholtreasu0000wrbi |title=Andy Warhol Treasures |date=2009 |publisher=Goodman |isbn=978-1-84796-004-7 |location=London |pages=77}} He was painted by Jamie Wyeth, and Warhol did a portrait of Amos for Archie.{{Cite news |last=Schwabach |first=Robert |date=1976-11-27 |title=Andy Warhol, Jamie Wyeth portray each other |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-andy-warhol-an/164957562/ |access-date=2025-02-08 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |pages=1}} In 1977, Warhol told Barbara Isenberg of the Los Angeles Times, "Archie has a really good beginning (art) collection."
Eventually, Warhol stopped taking Archie to events, certain that he would be entertained with Amos at home. They lived at 57 E 66th St on Manhattan's Upper East Side, and Johnson managed his decorating business from the fourth floor.{{Cite news |last=Pyle |first=Richard |date=1998-08-06 |title=Lasting Fame for Warhol Home |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-tribune-andy-warhols-home-desi/146205174/ |access-date=2024-04-28 |work=The News Tribune |pages=2}}{{Cite web |last=Nevins |first=Jake |date=2023-05-10 |title=Jay Johnson Remembers the Quiet Luxury and Kindness of His Brother Jed |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/jay-johnson-remembers-the-quiet-luxury-and-kindness-of-his-brother-jed |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=Interview Magazine |language=en-US}} Archie and Amos would use the elevator in the townhouse.
On August 3, 1980, Warhol told his diary: "It was Archie's birthday and he's eight or nine or even older. I gave him a box of Hartz Mountain treats."{{Sfn|Warhol|Hackett|1989|p=309|ps= Entry date: August 3, 1980}} When Johnson moved out of Warhol's townhouse in December 1980, the two shared custody of Archie and Amos.{{Sfn|Warhol|Hackett|1989|p=350|ps= Entry date: December 21, 1980}} Johnson would take them for the weekend to his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.{{Sfn|Warhol|Hackett|1989|p=700|ps= Entry date: December 15, 1985}} In a December 1986 diary entry, Warhol said:
Archie and Amos were sick last night. Jed picked them up and took them to the doctor's. Ran into him later, he was with Katy Jones, and he was talking about what was wrong with the dogs. They're just really getting old. I told Jed I'd give him one of the Dog paintings. Life's so short and a dog's life is even shorter—they'll both be going to heaven soon.{{Sfn|Warhol|Hackett|1989|p=780|ps= Entry date: December 5, 1986}}In February 1987, Warhol died following gallbladder surgery.{{Cite news |last=McGill |first=Douglas C. |date=February 23, 1987 |title=Andy Warhol; Pop Artist, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/23/obituaries/andy-warhol-pop-artist-dies.html |work=The New York Times}} Archie and Amos survived him, and they lived with Johnson until their deaths years later. According to Warhol's friend Paige Powell, they "lived to be about 21 years old."{{Cite book |last=Powell |first=Paige |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/on1117498195 |title=Paige Powell |last2=Hastreiter |first2=Kim |date=2019 |publisher=Dashwood Books |isbn=978-0-9966574-5-7 |volume=Animals |location=New York |pages=122 |oclc=on1117498195}}
In pop culture
Andy Warhol painted a silkscreen portrait of Archie and Jed Johnson.
In 1974, artist Martin Hoffman painted a portrait of Archie and Warhol at the Factory.{{Cite web |last=Ashley |first=Skyler |date=2018-01-18 |title=Invading Andy Warhol’s personal space |url=https://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/invading-andy-warholrsquos-personal-space,1314 |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=City Pulse |language=en}}
Archie was depicted in paintings and drawings by artist Jamie Wyeth in the exhibition "Andy Warhol and Jamie Wyeth Portraits of Each Other" at New York's Coe Kerr Gallery in 1976.{{Cite web |last=Russ |first=Eric |date=2019-11-04 |title=Jamie Wyeth's Portrait of Andy Warhol Captures the Artist at His Most Vulnerable |url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/jamie-wyeths-portrait-of-andy-warhol-captures-the-artist-at-his-most-vulnerable |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=Sothebys.com |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Kramer |first=Hilton |date=1976-06-04 |title=Art: Warhol Meets Wyeth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/04/archives/art-warhol-meets-wyeth.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240409071914/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/04/archives/art-warhol-meets-wyeth.html |archive-date=2024-04-09 |access-date=2024-12-21 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}
A photo of Archie dressed as the Pope was published in Warhol's book Exposures (1979).{{Cite news |last=Adler |first=Jerry |date=November 25, 1979 |title=Andy Warhol Exposed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-andy-warhol-exposed/148567322/ |work=Daily News Sunday News Magazine |location=New York |pages=2}}
A photo of Archie taken by Peter Hujar in 1975 was published in the book Black and White Dogs (1992) by Jean-Claude Suarès.{{Cite book |last=Suarès |first=Jean-Claude |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Black_and_White_Dogs/OEeWnWaSBOMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=peter+hujar+archie+warhol+black+white+1992&dq=peter+hujar+archie+warhol+black+white+1992&printsec=frontcover |title=Black and White Dogs |date=1992 |publisher=Collins Publishers San Francisco |isbn=978-0-00-255081-9 |pages=12 |language=en}}
In 2022, a mixed media image by Warhol titled "Archie, the Dachshund" was included in the exhibition "A Thousand Hounds: A Walk with Dogs Through the History of Photography" at the UBS Paine Webber Art Gallery in New York.{{Cite news |last=Strauber |first=Alan |date=March 14, 2002 |title=Show Pays Homage to Canine Mystique |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/poughkeepsie-journal-a-thousand-hounds-e/161222460/ |work=Poughkeepsie Journal |pages=1D}}
See also
Bibliography
- {{Citebook |last=Colacello |first=Bob |title=Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Up Close |publisher=HarperCollins |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-06-016419-5}}
- {{cite book |last1=Warhol |first1=Andy |url=https://archive.org/details/andywarholdiarie00warh |title=The Andy Warhol Diaries |last2=Hackett |first2=Pat |publisher=Warner Books |year=1989 |isbn=9780446514262 |location=New York |url-access=registration}}