THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM NEW YORK – September 19 – November 16 1969

Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was a leading American pop artist. He began by painting cowboy and Indian subjects, was influenced by Abstract Impressionism and by 1961 achieved a breakthrough with his enlarged dot images. His usually large pictures are based on the magnification of details from advertisements of everyday objects – a foot on a pedal-bin, a hand holding a sponge, a cooker with food in the open o... more