Morton A. Mort (Black State)
1981
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View on museum website →Medium
woodcut on Arches Cover wove paper
Dimensions
image: 58.1 x 83.5 cm (22 7/8 x 32 7/8 in.) sheet: 74.6 x 99.1 cm (29 3/8 x 39 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein
Accession Number
1996.56.108
Art Historical Context
Roy Lichtenstein's *Morton A. Mort (Black State)*, created in 1981, is a striking woodcut print on Arches Cover wove paper, measuring 58.1 x 83.5 cm for the image and 74.6 x 99.1 cm for the sheet This work exemplifies the artist's late-career experimentation with printmaking techniques, gifted to the National Gallery of Art by Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein and housed in the CG-W Department. As a cornerstone of Pop Art, Lichtenstein drew inspiration from commercial imagery like advertisements and comic books, often employing bold lines and graphic simplicity. The woodcut medium—a traditional re...
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...