Pop Art icon Andy Warhol (1923-1987) was renowned for the silk-screened multiple images he mass produced in a New York studio called The Factory. In the1960s and 70s, the Factory was a trendy hangout for socialites, entertainers, writers, and hangers-on, including Dorothy Podler. Podler asked if she could shoot a series of ‘Marilyn” canvases Warhol completed and, not fully comprehending, he agreed. Pulling out a revolver, Podler shot a stack of the paintings. The bullet-riddled images became known as the “Shot Marilyn Paintings.”

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