Red and Yellow Apple
1983
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View on museum website →Medium
color woodcut on handmade Iwano Kizuki Hosho paper
Dimensions
image: 57.8 x 77.5 cm (22 3/4 x 30 1/2 in.) sheet: 73 x 95.6 cm (28 3/4 x 37 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein
Accession Number
1996.56.113
Art Historical Context
Roy Lichtenstein's *Red and Yellow Apple*1983) is a vibrant color woodcut that captures the artist's signature Pop Art flair. Known for transforming comic strips and consumer imagery into monumental paintings during the 1960s, Lichtenstein here turns a simple still life subject—an apple—into a bold, graphic icon. The image measures 57.8 x 77.5 cm, printed on luxurious handmade Iwano Kiz Hosho paper, emphasizing texture and precision in this traditional Japanese medium. As a print from Lichtenstein's later career, the work showcases his mastery of woodcut techniques, where carved blocks are in...
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...