Yellow Brushstroke
1984 - 1985
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photo-etching in yellow and black on Rives BFK wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 59.7 x 32.7 cm (23 1/2 x 12 7/8 in.) sheet: 78.7 x 50.5 cm (31 x 19 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist
Accession Number
1989.55.50
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...