Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997)
Nationality: American
Movement: Pop Art
Media: Paintings
Influences:

Biography:
Born in New York, Roy Lichtenstein studied at the Art Student’s League and then the Ohio State University. From 1943 to 1946, he taught at the latter and then moved on to teach at New York State and Rutgers Universities. In 1949, Lichtenstein began exhibited his early work, which had strong influences of both Cubism and Abstract Expressionism. After meeting Allan Kaprow at Rutgers, he became interested in consumerism and American culture and spurred the development of the Pop Art movement.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein Title: Brushstrokes Date: 1967 Medium: color screenprint Dimensions: H.22 x W.30 in.
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Interior with Chair, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1997, Serigraph on Somerset textured paper
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Roy Lichtenstein Crying Girl Lithograph 1964
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Roy Lichtenstein Foot and Hand Color offset lithograph 1964
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Roy Lichtenstein untitled, plate on p. 119 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]) color lithograph 1964
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Roy Lichtenstein untitled, plate on p. 118 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]) color lithograph 1964
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Woman’s Cloche, Lichtenstein  (Label), mid-1920s, Balibuntal straw, grosgrain ribbon
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Roy Lichtenstein Haystack #3 from the Haystack series Color lithograph and screenprint on Rives BFK paper 1969
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Roy Lichtenstein Moonscape, pl. 3 from Eleven Pop Artists, Vol. I 120 screen print on matallic plastic 1965
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein Title: Vicki Date: 1964 Medium: enamel on steel Dimensions: H.42 x W.42
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Roy Lichtenstein Sweet Dreams Baby!, plate 1 from the portfolio Eleven Pop Artists, Vol. III Color screenprint 1965
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Untitled, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1973, Silkscreen
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Three Plates, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1976, Paper
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Paper plate, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1969, Silkscreen
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Cold Shoulder, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1963, Oil on canvas
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Composition I, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1996, Eight-color/eight-run screenprint
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Still Life with Red Jar, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1994, Five-color screenprint
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Roy Lichtenstein Sandwich and Soda from the portfolio Ten Works by Ten Painters Color screenprint on clear plastic film 1964
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La Sortie, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1990-1991, Six-color woodcut
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The Den, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1990-1991, Seven-color woodcut and screenprint
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Water Lily, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1993, Color screenprint
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The Melody Haunts My Reverie, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1965, Screenprint
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The Melody Haunts My Reverie, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1965, Screenprint
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The Melody Haunts My Reverie, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1965, Screenprint
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Untitled Head, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1995, Color screenprint
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Venetian School II, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1996, Four-color/five-run screenprint
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Modern Art I, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1996, Eight-color/twenty eight-run screenprint
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Composition II, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1996, Nine-color/eleven-run screenprint
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Bicentenial Print, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1975, Lithograph with silkscreen
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Bicentenial Print, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1975, Lithograph with silkscreen
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Sunrise, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1967, Mixed media (enamel on metal)
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Mirror, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1990, Two-color screenprint on white four-ply board
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Bedroom, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1990-1991, Ten-color woodcut and screenprint
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Haystack #1, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1969, Lithograph and screenprint on BFK Rives paper
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Six-Piece Place Setting (Cup), Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1966, Stoneware, glaze
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Modern Art II, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1996, Fourteen-color/nineteen-run screenprint
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Reflections on Soda Fountain, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1991, Screenprint on Rives BFK paper
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Yellow Still Life, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1974, Lithograph and screenprint on Rives BFK paper
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Still Life with Lobster, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1974, Lithograph and screenprint on Rives BFK paper
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Still Life with Figurine, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1974, Lithograph and screenprint on Rives BFK paper
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Still Life with Figurine, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1974, Lithograph and screenprint on Rives BFK paper
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Still Life with Lobster, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1974, Lithograph and screenprint on Rives BFK paper
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Yellow Still Life, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1974, Lithograph and screenprint on Rives BFK paper
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Six-Piece Place Setting (Saucer), Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1966, Stoneware, glaze
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Landscape with Boats, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1996, Twelve-color/ten-run lithograph/screenprint
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Turkey Shopping Bag, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1964, Screenprint on wove paper bag with handles
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Turkey Shopping Bag, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1964, Screenprint on wove paper bag with handles
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Offset Fine Art Olympic Poster, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1982, Offset lithograph
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View from the Window, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1985, Lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint on Arches 88 paper
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The Living Room, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1990-1991, Eleven-color woodcut and screenprint
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Red Lamps, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1990-1991, Eleven-color lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint
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Still Life with Portrait, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1974, Lithograph and screenprint with debossing on Rives BFK paper
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Still Life with Pitchers and Flowers, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1974, Lithograph and screenprint on Rives BFK paper
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Still Life with Windmill, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1974, Lithograph and screenprint with debossing on Rives BFK paper
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Still Life with Windmill, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1974, Lithograph and screenprint with debossing on Rives BFK paper
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Still Life with Portrait, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1974, Lithograph and screenprint with debossing on Rives BFK paper
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Still Life with Pitchers and Flowers, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1974, Lithograph and screenprint on Rives BFK paper
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Six-Piece Place Setting, Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1966, Stoneware, glaze
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Six Piece Place Setting (Luncheon Plate), Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1966, Stoneware, glaze
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Six Piece Place Setting (Soup Bowl), Roy Lichtenstein (United States, New York, New York City, 1923 - 1997) , 1966, Stoneware, glaze

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: Roy Lichtenstein: Interiors
Roy Lichtenstein: Interiors is generously sponsored by the Sara Lee Foundation and the Northern Trust Corporation. > Roy Lichtenstein: Interiors is generously sponsored by the Sara Lee Foundation and the Northern Trust Corporation. ...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Roy Lichtenstein: The First Comprehensive Presentation in Scandinavia
The exhibition presented by Louisiana will demonstrate that this description of Roy Lichtenstein’s work is in itself a cliché. Much more goes on in the Lichtenstein universe than the mere citation of existing images. Lichtenstein’s work deals with...
Bellevue Art Museum: Roy Lichtenstein: Times Square Mural
Lichtenstein was commissioned 12 years ago by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority to create a mural for the Times Square subway station. Standing 6 feet high and 53 feet long the mural depicts a skyline view of a futuristic city and ...
Kunsthaus Bregenz: Roy Lichtenstein: Classic of the New
For more than three decades, Roy Lichtenstein (born in 1923 in New York; died in 1997 in New York) managed to stay true to his artistic sources and at the same time to stylistically expand the different thematic groups, to interlink and vary th...
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Roy Lichtenstein: Mirror Paintings, 1963 – 1997
Unlike the 1994 retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (which toured to Munich and Hamburg), this exhibition is devoted to a single theme that preoccupied the artist over several decades: that of 'Mirror' 'Paintings' and 'Reflections...
Phoenix Art Museum: Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection
This exhibition has been organized by the Portland Art Museum and is made possible by UBS. One of the foremost collections of contemporary art in the United States, The UBS Art Collection, formerly The PaineWebber Art Collection, began in 1971 wi...
Tacoma Art Museum: Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters
American Indian Encounters features paintings and works on paper inspired by Lichtenstein’s appreciation of Native American art. The exhibition also includes Native-American-themed works on paper created between 1950 and 1951 that reflect Lichtens...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA: Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1960-2000
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Roy Lichtenstein: All About Art
This major exhibition features approximately eighty paintings and drawings by Lichtenstein (1923–1997) and traces the artist’s fascination with the painted image and the act of art-making over his nearly forty-year career. Best known as a pop arti...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Roy Lichtenstein on the Roof
The installation is made possible by the Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust. On view will be: the nearly 30-foot-tall Brushstrokes, 1996 (fabricated 2001); the 17 1/2-foot-wide House III, 1997 (fabricated 2002); and four vertical, quasi-f...
Detroit Institute of Art: POP ART: PRINTS AND MULTIPLES FROM THE DIA COLLECTION
By relying on humor, audacity, color and several new technologies, these artists redefined and broadened the spectrum of art. This exhibition surveys the accomplishments...
ASU Art Museum: The Eye of the Collector: Works from the Lipman Collection of American Art
The exhibition will include works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, David Smith, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, Robert Morris and will...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Photographs of Artists
Don't miss this opportunity to come face to face with artists represented in the Gallery's collection such as Henri...
: Art Dealer Monolith Leo Castelli Dies at 91
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Guggenheim Hermitage Museum: American Pop Icons: Works by Eight Key Artists
In a statement, Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, said of the Pop exhibition: "American Pop Icons is the third major presentation at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum as part of its ongoing mission to bring many of the wor...
Appleton Museum of Art: Homage to Van Gogh: International Artists Pay Tribute to a Legend
The collection was started in 1985 with the intention on fulfilling Van Gogh’s hope of forming a community of artists in Arles, France. Little evidence remains of Van Gogh’s residence in the city. None of the paintings made during Van Gogh’s “Arle...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections

The exhibition draws from the Broads' personal collection and the holdings of The Broad Art Foundation. Developed over the past 30 years, these collections span four decades and include some of the most emblematic works in the history of postwar a...
Karin Weber Gallery: Perfection Underlying Life: Karina Wisniewska
An injury in 2000 terminated Karina Wisniewska's international career as a Concert pianist. She moved to her own studio in Zurich to concentrate exclusively on her other passion, painting. She has had almost immediate success, with her work exhib...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Pop Impact - From Johns to Warhol
Considered controversial when it first emerged in the 1950s and 60s, Pop Art broke the rules by shunning abstraction in general and returning to recognizable subject matter, yet the subjects Pop artists chose—Coke bottles, billbo...
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: Selections From The Hara Museum's Permanent Collection
The featured pieces include works by leading pop art figures, such as Still Life with Scalloped Bowl (1972) by Roy Lichtenstein, whose use of secular motifs, simple forms and solid blocks of colors was inspired by print media and comic strips. Al...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from The Museum of Modern Art
Organized thematically, the exhibition addresses some of the prevailing subjects that preoccupied Pop artists, including mass media, consumer culture, politics, and erotica. The exhibition begins with proto-Pop examples by artists such as Ja...
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach: The UAM Diaries: 1973-2004 The Glenn Years
In addition, a number of exhibits that the UAM has traveled to museums throughout America, including The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties; Time Dust, James Rosenquist; The Complete Graphics 1962-1992; Frederick Sommer at Seve...
Everson Museum: Central New York Selects
Participants were allowed to choose from all media including paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, sculpture, and ceramics, but were limited to works of art that were not currently displa...
Heather Marx Gallery: Brisk: Paintings by Yek
Using an airbrush to spray a range of colors from day-glo explosions to rich, moody nocturnes onto his concave panels, Yek creates nearly flawless atmospheric abstractions that suggest hyperkinetic landscapes and skyscapes.  Yeks paintings appear ...
Long Beach Museum of Art: The Artful Teapot: 20th-Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection
The teapots, created by modern and contemporary artists, such as Roy Lichtenstein, Michael Graves, Keith Haring, Cindy Sherman, Ralph Bacerra, Cindy Kolodziejski, Michael Lucero, Ron Nagle, Tony Marsh, Peter Shire and Adrian Saxe, represent some o...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Picasso to Pop: Aspects of Modern Art
The exhibition begins with a powerful Picasso drawing of a head dated 1906. Then come a variety of experimental works by George Grosz, Paul Klee, Georges Roualt, and Wyndham Lewis, who represent some of the advanced artistic movements of the 1920s...
MIT List Visual Arts Center: Body Parts- A Self-Portrait by John Coplans
For weeks [after 9/11], when the wind blew in my direction, I could smell fumes in my studio and in my bedroom. The fumes constantly seeped in; the smell reminded me of the burning of a body at a Hindu funeral pyre. A vast number of bodies were ...
Columbia Museum of Art: POP IMACT! From Johns to Warhol
Included in the exhibition, are icons of the '60s by 17 notable artists including Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselman, Robert Indiana, Marisol, Edward Ruscha, George Segal and Wayne Thiebau...
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum: POP CARS. America – Europe
The Lehmbruck Museum project will be the result of in-depth research, and will present groups of work on the topic from the Gottfried Schultz VW collection, the BMW Car Collection (Warhol), the DaimlerChrysler Collection (Cars by Warhol), the ADAC (G...
20th Century Art & Design Fair: Fair Opens Tomorrow in the National Hall Olympia
Exhibitors who have committed already to this year’s fair include Country Seat and Morgan Greenwood with the finest furniture and objects from eminent and international designers such as Aalto and Bertoia, The Loschs from Germany, specialising in ...
Andy Warhol Museum: Summer of Andy: Program Celebrates Andy Warhol's 75th Birthday
Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett The exhibition, Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett, examines the connection between artist and muse through a series of collaborative sculptures and photographs by contemporary artist, Keith Edmier, and actress a...
Peabody Essex Museum: The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection
The Artful Teapot demonstrates how the teapot can be provocative, playful, and profound as well as conventional. Addressing aesthetic, social, and political issues, the exhibition examines the teapot's ability to be more than just a device to serv...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: New Acquisitions: Part Two Contemporary Art
This literal and sometimes even literary approach is really at the heart of contemporary art, much of which is referred to as “post-modern.” An in depth discussion of post-modernism is well beyond the scope of this short writing, but let it suffic...
National Gallery of Art: Best Impressions: 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.
From its beginnings, Gemini has introduced cutting-edge methods of fabrication to realize the visions of its invited artists, said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. We are pleased to present these innovative works by some of t...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
Erna Hecey Gallery: IN AND AROUND THE HOUSE: Laurie Simmons
Simmons, while sharing strategies with the artists known as the Pictures Generation - Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler and Sarah Charlesworth - and their documentation and appropriation of cultural memory, forged her own identity more ...
National Gallery of Art: Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l’Oeil Painting
This exhibition is generously supported by Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. "Throughout the ages, trompe l’oeil has always been one of the most popular genre...
Fruitmarket Gallery: Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise
The collaged paintings that marked Tomaselli’s emergence on the international art circuit in the late 80s are obsessive compendia of the natural and unnatural worlds that move between abstraction and figuration. They are distinguished by the use o...
American Art Dealers Association (ADAA): 16th Annual Exhibition to be Held at the Seventh Regiment Armory
This year The Art Show highlights a group of solo-shows that are ambitious and not to be missed. Continuing their tradition of showing a single artist at The Art Show for the last several years, PaceWildenstein will present recent works by the Abs...

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