Haystacks #3

Roy Lichtenstein, Haystacks #3, 1969, color lithograph and screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1969.71.2, © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Copied Roy Lichtenstein, Haystacks #3, 1969, color lithograph and screenprint on paper, image: 13 1⁄2 x 23 1⁄2 in. (34.3 x 59.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1969.71.2, © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Artwork Details

Title
Haystacks #3
Artist
Printer
Gemini G.E.L.
Publisher
Gemini G.E.L.
Date
1969
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 13 1⁄2 x 23 1⁄2 in. (34.3 x 59.7 cm)
Copyright
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Mediums Description
color lithograph and screenprint on paper
Classifications
Subjects
  • Landscape
Object Number
1969.71.2
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1969.71.2

Artwork Description

In the 1890s, impressionist painter Claude Monet painted a series of works showing changes of natural light on fields of haystacks. By the time pop art emerged in the 1960s, these well-known paintings existed in the popular imagination as clichés. The dot pattern in Lichtenstein’s print alludes to Ben Day dots--- the basis of half-tone printing. Lichtenstein co-opted this technique, used to reproduce art historical tomes as well as the newspaper comics of mass culture, and archly implied that endlessly cloning works of art may popularize and, by extension, trivialize them.


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