Who was Andy Warhol’s mother, who moved from Slovakia to the United States?

Andy Warhol’s mother, who moved from Slovakia to the United States, was Julia Warhola.

Julia Warhola was born in what is now Slovakia and later emigrated to the United States, where she raised Andy and his brothers with her husband, Andrej Warhola. The family lived in Pittsburgh, the city where Warhol was born and spent his childhood. Julia supported her son’s artistic interests and was herself an artist who produced drawings and illustrations.

She is especially associated with Warhol’s early development as an artist and with the strong presence of family and Eastern European heritage in his life. Her name is sometimes confused with Warhol’s birth name, Andrew Warhola, but Julia was his mother rather than another name for the artist. Warhol later used her name on some artistic projects and publications.