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Roy Lichtenstein

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Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997) was active/lived in New York.  Roy Lichtenstein is known for Pop imagery cartoon painting.

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 From his studio in New York City, Roy Lichtenstein did cartoon inspired paintings that helped launch the Pop Art movement.  He was unique in that he developed a new visual language in an avant-garde style that was disruptive to viewers and yet was accessible and popular with them.  He also did innovative art work that incorporated many late 20th-century movements and addressed a number of social issues.

His thirty-five year career of public recognition was celebrated in 1993-94 by curators of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York with a large scale retrospective of his work.

He was born in Manhattan and went to high school there.  By age 14, he was taking art classes at the Parsons School of Design and also studied briefly with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League in 1939.  He then attended Ohio State University where his major influence was Hoyt Sherman, whose figure-ground relationships inspired Lichtenstein's treatment of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 21621 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 9 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 27 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Roy Lichtenstein as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

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.  askART lists Roy Lichtenstein in 2 of its research Essays. Roy Lichtenstein has 53 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Roy Lichtenstein available:    Jim Dine,  Tom Wesselmann,  Andy Warhol,  Frank Stella,  Robert Rauschenberg,  Robert Burns Motherwell,  Helen Frankenthaler,  Sam Lewis Francis,  Robert E Indiana,  James Rosenquist,  Jasper Johns,  Ed Ruscha,  David Hockney,  Alexander (Sandy) Calder,  Claes Thure Oldenburg,  Alex Katz,  Ellsworth Kelly,  Willem de Kooning,  Wayne Thiebaud,  Keith Haring,  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson,  Richard Diebenkorn,  Jean-Michel Basquiat,  Josef Albers



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Roy Lichtenstein


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Comic Book, Comic Strip Artist, Comic Figures
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Kinetic
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Israel
Art Teacher
  • Hoyt Sherman
  • Reginald Marsh
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Parsons, The New School for Design, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • National Medal of Arts
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Karen and Robert Duncan Collection, Lincoln NE
  • Public Art in Washington DC
  • Richard Weisman Collection
  • Storm King Art Center Sculpture Installation, New York
  • UBS-Paine Webber Collection
Added Description
  • Abstraction Specialty
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Mural Specialty
  • Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Carolina Art Association-
Exhibition of Museum
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

The above Keywords are derived from what askART has identified from our research for this artist and are intended as an additional tool for information. Sources include books, periodicals, auction records, family members, friends, and professional researchers. askART has derived Quick Facts as a brief overview; it is not a complete list rather it is a list that is most frequently cited.
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