Andy Warhol's East 66th Street home

Andy Warhol's East 66th Street home was a lived-in domestic space, photographed with him and his dachshund Archie, and later became the place where the consequences of Jed Johnson's departure registered as both relief and isolation. Its significance in the diary lies in that contrast: the house remained a familiar setting, but no longer a shared home.

Setting and Daily Life

A photograph places Andy with Archie in the entrance hallway of the house, giving the residence a specific, intimate point of view rather than presenting it only as an address. Another caption shows Andy getting dressed there. Together, the images frame the home as part of ordinary routine, with Archie present in its threshold space and Andy moving through the practical rituals of the day.

Jed Johnson Moves Out

In December 1980, Andy recorded that Jed had decided to move out. Jed had bought an apartment on West 67th Street to use as a workspace, but now planned to live there as well. Andy said he did not want to talk about the separation. The change was concrete: an apartment acquired for work became Jed's home, while the East 66th Street residence ceased to be their shared domestic space.

Living Alone

Looking back the following April, Andy connected his present emotional state to the previous Christmas, when he and Jed had been fighting and Jed moved out. He described being relieved to live alone, yet not wanting to be by himself in the large house with Nena, Aurora, Archie, and Amos. The house's scale sharpened that ambivalence: it was still occupied and familiar, but Andy experienced it as an isolating place. His account makes the move-out more than a change of address; it marks the beginning of a period in which solitude felt both welcome and difficult.