Pop Art founder Andy Warhol (1923 – 1987) became acclaimed for his images of women’s shoes when he was a commercial artist in the 1950s, drawing them for retail store I. Miller. Returning to the motif in the 1980s, Warhol set sparkling, multi-colored women’s shoes against black backgrounds. He loved jewels and tried to create his “Diamond Dust Shoes” series from powdered diamond dust but it was too chalky to create sufficient sparkle in his “Diamond Dust Shoes,” so Warhol used crushed glass, instead.