Modern Art Poster
1967
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color screenprint on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 20.32 × 27.78 cm (8 × 10 15/16 in.) sheet: 22.86 × 30.32 cm (9 × 11 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn)
Accession Number
2015.143.1397
Art Historical Context
Roy Lichtenstein's *Modern Art Poster* (1967) is a vibrant color screenprint that captures the explosive energy of Pop Art during the 1960s. As a leading figure in the movement, Lichtenstein drew inspiration from American comic books and advertising, transforming everyday commercial imagery into high art. Created at the height of Pop's challenge to traditional fine art hierarchies, this poster likely playfully nods to the modern art world itself, blurring lines between elite culture and mass media with its bold graphics and ironic wit. The medium—color screenprint on wove paper—perfectly suit...
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...