Aspen Winter Jazz Poster
1967
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color screenprint on heavy white calendered paper
Dimensions
sheet: 101.6 x 66.2 cm (40 x 26 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kimiko and John Powers
Accession Number
1993.6.1
Art Historical Context
Roy Lichtenstein's *Aspen Winter Jazz Poster* (1967) captures the vibrant energy of the Aspen Winter Jazz Festival through the lens of Pop Art. Created as a promotional print, it exemplifies Lichtenstein's signature style—bold comic-book aesthetics with thick black outlines, primary colors, and Ben-Day dots that mimic mass-produced graphics. As a leading figure in the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Lichtenstein blurred the lines between high art and commercial imagery, drawing from advertising and cartoons to comment on consumer culture during America's post-war boom. This color screenprint o...
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...