Green Face
1989
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint with encaustic and waxtype on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 149.6 x 104.1 cm (58 7/8 x 41 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Graphicstudio/University of South Florida and the Artist in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1990.72.6
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...