Peace Through Chemistry I
started 1969, published 1970
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph and screenprint on Special Arjomari wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 96.04 × 161.29 cm (37 13/16 × 63 1/2 in.) image: 80.65 × 146.05 cm (31 3/4 × 57 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist
Accession Number
1981.5.60
Art Historical Context
**Peace Through Chemistry I** (started 1969, published 1970) is a monumental color lithograph and screenprint by Pop Art icon Roy Lichtenstein, now housed in the National Gallery of Art. Measuring nearly 96 x 161 cm on the sheet, this large-scale print exemplifies Lichtenstein's signature style: bold comic-strip aesthetics with Ben-Day dots, thick black outlines, and exaggerated perspectives drawn from commercial imagery. Created in collaboration with the renowned Gemini G.E.L. workshop in Los Angeles—whose gift brought it to the museum—Lichtenstein masterfully blended lithography's precise co...
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...