Indian with Pony
1953
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View on museum website →Medium
woodcut in black on natural Japanese paper
Dimensions
image: 23.8 x 21.6 cm (9 3/8 x 8 1/2 in.) sheet: 43.2 x 26.4 cm (17 x 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein
Accession Number
1996.56.23
Art Historical Context
Step into the early creative world of Roy Lichtenstein *Indian with Pony*, striking 1953 woodcut print created the artist was just beginning to explore his voice. Measuring 23.8 x 21.6 cm on a larger sheet of natural Japanese paper, this black-on-natural work captures a simplified figure of a Native American rider and horse, evoking the mythic imagery of the American West. Donated to the National Gallery of Art by Lichtenstein and his wife Dorothy, it offers a glimpse into his pre-Pop Art phase, before the bold comic-strip aesthetics that would define his fame in the 1960s. Woodcut, a relief ...
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...