Bull Head II
1973
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color lithograph, screenprint, and line-cut on Arjomari wove paper
Dimensions
image: 53.66 × 71.28 cm (21 1/8 × 28 1/16 in.) sheet: 63.34 × 83.66 cm (24 15/16 × 32 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Carleton B. Swift, Jr.)
Accession Number
2015.19.2827
Art Historical Context
Roy Lichtenstein's *Bull Head II* (1973) is a striking color lithograph, screenprint, line-cut on Arjom wove paper, exemplifying the artist's mastery of Pop Art in the print medium. Measuring 53.66 × 71.28 cm for the image and slightly larger for the sheet, this work captures Lichtenstein's signature style: bold outlines, flat Ben-Day dot patterns, and comic-strip-inspired imagery. As part of his exploration of animal motifs in the 1970s, the bull head evokes strength and abstraction, nodding to modernist influences while subverting them through commercial printing techniques. Lichtenstein, a...
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...