The Den
started 1990, published 1991
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View on museum website →Medium
color woodcut and screenprint on PTI paperboard
Dimensions
image: 131.45 × 166.69 cm (51 3/4 × 65 5/8 in.) sheet: 146.05 × 181.93 cm (57 1/2 × 71 5/8 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
2003.146.4
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...