Painting with Statue of Liberty
1983
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View on museum website →Medium
oil and Magna on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 271.8 x 424.2 cm (107 x 167 in.) framed: 273.4 x 426.1 x 4.1 cm (107 5/8 x 167 3/4 x 1 5/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection
Accession Number
1996.81.6
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...