Blam Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997)

1962

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

68 × 80 in. (172.7 × 203.2 cm)
framed: 68 3/4 × 80 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (174.6 × 205.1 × 5.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935

Accession Number

1995.32.9

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Sold through Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1/16/62; to Richard Brown Baker (untill 1995; donated to Yale University Art Gallery)
Bibliography
  • American Art: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2023), 33, 252–53, no. 120, ill
  • James Rondeau and Sheena Wagstaff, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012), 347
  • Richard H. Axsom et al., Chicago Imagists, exh. cat. (Madison, Wis.: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011), 41, ill
  • Jennifer Farrell, "Reflections on a Gift: Richard Brown Baker and Roy Lichtenstein," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2008), 49, fig. 2
  • Susan Belasco and Linck Johnson, The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volume 2: 1865 to the Present, 2 (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008), 1073, ill
  • Fortissimo!: Thirty years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of contemporary art, exh. cat. (Providence, R.I.: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1985), 15, 36–37, 68, 139–140, no. 84, ill
  • Art of the 50's and 60's: Selections from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, exh. cat. (Ridgefield, Conn.: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 1965), no. 60, ill
  • Four Centuries of American Art, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1963), ill
  • The New Realists, exh. cat. (New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1962), ill
Object copyright
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
In Copyright
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Subject

aircraft fire

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