American Indian Theme III
1980
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View on museum website →Medium
color woodcut on handmade Suzuki paper
Dimensions
image: 67 x 48.3 cm (26 3/8 x 19 in.) sheet: 88.9 x 68.6 cm (35 x 27 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein
Accession Number
1996.56.89
Art Historical Context
Roy Lichtenstein's *American Indian Theme III*1980) is a vibrant color woodcut on luxurious handmade Suzuki paper, measuring 67 x 48.3 cm for the image and 88.9 x 68.6 cm for the full sheet. As a leading figure in Pop Art, Lichtenstein is renowned for his bold, graphic style inspired by comic books and commercial imagery, often featuring exaggerated lines, primary colors, and Benday dots. This print, gifted to the National Gallery of Art by the artist and his wife Dorothy, reflects his late-career experimentation with traditional printmaking techniques like woodcut, which allowed for rich text...
About the Artist
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City to Milton Lichtenstein, a real estate broker, and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein, a homemaker with musical training, in an upper-middle-class German-Jewish family. Growing up on the Upper West Side, he displayed early artistic talent, sketching jazz musicians and visiting museums like the Museum of Modern Art. In 1939, he studied painti...