The famed Pop artist created his Endangered Species print portfolio as a commission from New York art dealers Ronald and Frayda Feldman in 1983. According to Matt Wrbican, archivist at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the initial idea sprang
from a conversation between the Feldmans and Warhol about shared environmental concerns. The three worked together to choose the species portrayed: African elephant, pine barrens tree frog, giant panda, bald eagle, Siberian tiger, San Francisco silverspot, orangutan, Grevy’s zebra, black rhinoceros,
and bighorn sheep.