Artist

Roy Lichtenstein

born New York City 1923-died New York City 1997
Born
New York, New York, United States
Died
New York, New York, United States
Active in
  • Southampton, New York, United States
Biography

Born in New York City, Roy Lichtenstein attended the Art Students League, where he studied with the painter Reginald Marsh. He then attended the School of Fine Arts at Ohio State University, earning his B.F.A. degree in 1946 after serving three years in the Army stationed in Europe. He received his M.F.A. degree three years later.Lichtenstein became a major force in the Pop Art movement in the 1960s. In addition to painting, he worked in a number of graphic-art media. As early as 1950, he won design awards for his prints, many of them made at Tyler Graphics in Mount Kisco, New York. Since the early 1960s his prints have been included in important contemporary graphic-art exhibitions throughout the country. A major exhibition of his prints was presented at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1994.

The mass-produced appearance and process-oriented style of Lichtenstein's work make it ideally suited to print and poster making. He has completed innumerable public and private commissions for museums, film and music festivals, political groups, and the American Bicentennial.

Therese Thau Heyman Posters American Style (New York and Washington, D.C.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the National Museum of American Art, 1998)

Works by this artist (21 items)

Laura Aguilar, Nature Self-Portrait #11, 1996, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, 2021.27.4, © 2016, Laura Aguilar Trust
Nature Self-Portrait #11
Date1996
gelatin silver print
Not on view
Laura Aguilar, Nature Self-Portrait #12, 1996, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, 2021.27.3, © 2016, Laura Aguilar Trust
Nature Self-Portrait #12
Date1996
gelatin silver print
Not on view
Laura Aguilar, Angie and Son, from the series Latina Lesbians, 1986, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, 2021.27.6, © 2016, Laura Aguilar Trust
Angie and Son, from the series Latina Lesbians
Date1986
gelatin silver print
Not on view
Laura Aguilar, Angie, from the series Latina Lesbians, 1987, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, 2021.27.5, © 2016, Laura Aguilar Trust
Angie, from the series Latina Lesbians
Date1987
gelatin silver print
Not on view

Exhibitions

Media - 1966.29.23 - SAAM-1966.29.23_1 - 2177
Pop Art Prints
March 21, 2014August 31, 2014
In the 1950s and 1960s, pop art offered a stark contrast to abstract expressionism, then the dominant movement in American art.
Media - 2001.38 - SAAM-2001.38_1 - 63291
Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection
October 29, 2015April 9, 2016
American artists in the twentieth century were deeply influenced by European modernism.

Related Books

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Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection
In eighty-eight striking paintings and sculptures, Crosscurrents captures modernism as it moved from early abstractions by O’Keeffe, to Picasso and Pollock in midcentury, to pop riffs on contemporary culture by Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud, and Tom Wesselmann—all illustrating the complexity and energy of a distinctly American modernism.