Foot Medication Poster
1963
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offset lithograph (halftone) in black, on lightweight, off-white wove paper
Dimensions
image: 39.7 x 40.3 cm (15 5/8 x 15 7/8 in.) sheet: 58.3 x 43 cm (22 15/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein
Accession Number
1996.56.132
Art Historical Context
Roy Lichtenstein's *Foot Medication Poster* (1963) is a quintessential example of Pop Art's playful subversion of American consumer culture. Created during the height of the Pop movement, when artists like Lichtenstein drew from mass media, advertising, and comic books, this work mimics the bold, declarative style of mid-20th-century product posters. The title suggests a satirical take on everyday remedies—perhaps athlete's foot treatments—transformed into high art through Lichtenstein's signature graphic sensibility. Printed as an offset lithograph using halftone dots in stark black on light...
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...