Shipboard Girl: Separation Drawing for Blue
1965
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View on museum website →Medium
collage, black gouache, black felt-tip pen, and graphite on paper
Dimensions
image: 66.3 x 48.4 cm (26 1/8 x 19 1/16 in.) sheet: 73.3 x 52.1 cm (28 7/8 x 20 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Director's Discretionary Fund
Accession Number
1999.11.1
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...