Study for "Brushstroke on Canvas"
1988
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View on museum website →Medium
collage of printed and painted papers on paperboard
Dimensions
image: 85.88 × 81.92 cm (33 13/16 × 32 1/4 in.) sheet: 95.89 × 92.08 cm (37 3/4 × 36 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Anthony T. Podesta, Washington DC)
Accession Number
2015.19.3943
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...