Shipboard Girl: Separation Drawing for Yellow
1965
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View on museum website →Medium
gouache, felt-tip marker and graphite on paper
Dimensions
image: 66.2 x 48.6 cm (26 1/16 x 19 1/8 in.) sheet: 74.9 x 52.1 cm (29 1/2 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
1999.11.3
Art Historical Context
Roy Lichtenstein's *Shipboard Girl: Separation Drawing for Yellow* (1965) is a vibrant preparatory drawing from the height of the Pop Art movement where the artist drew inspiration from American comic books and advertisements. Lichtenstein, a leading figure in Pop Art alongside Andy Warhol, transformed banal imagery into high art through his signature style: bold black outlines, flat colors, and simulated Ben-Day dots mimicking print media. This work likely sketches a scene from his "Shipboard Girl" series evoking wartime romance comics with a stylized female figure, capturing themes of longin...
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...