Finger Pointing
Roy Lichtenstein
1973
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View on museum website →Medium
color screenprint on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 30.48 x 22.86 cm (12 x 9 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Robert Rauschenberg
Accession Number
1976.66.15
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...