Entablature
1974
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View on museum website →Medium
oil, Magna, sand, Magna medium, and aluminum powder on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 152.4 × 254 cm (60 × 100 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection
Accession Number
2012.84.1
Art Historical Context
Roy Lichtenstein's *Entablature* (1974) is a striking large-scale painting measuring 152.4 × 254 cm (60 × 100 in.), crafted with an innovative mix of oil, Magna (an acrylic paint), sand, Magna medium, and powder on canvas. This work, housed in the National Gallery of's CMC Department from the Robert and Jane Meyer Collection, exemplifies Lichtenstein's evolution in the 1970s as a leading Pop Art figure known for his bold, graphic style inspired by commercial imagery and architecture. The title refers to the horizontal upper section of classical building fronts, and Lichtenstein transforms thi...
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...