Still Life with Red Jar
1994
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View on museum website →Medium
color screenprint on Lanaquarelle Watercolor wove paper
Dimensions
image: 38.1 x 33.7 cm (15 x 13 1/4 in.) sheet: 54 x 48.9 cm (21 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Roy Lichtenstein and Gemini G.E.L.
Accession Number
2003.146.16
Art Historical Context
**Still Life with Red Jar (1994) by Roy Lichtenstein invites visitors into the playful world of Pop Art through a modern twist on the classic still life genre. Created late in the artist's career—just three years before his death in 1997—this color screenprint captures everyday objects with Lichtenstein's signature bold lines primary colors, and comic-strip Ben-Day dots. A prominent red jar anchors the composition, surrounded by simple forms that echo the precision of advertising imagery, transforming humble domestic items into icons of consumer culture. Printed on luxurious Lanaquarelle Wate...
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...