Washing Machine Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997)

1961

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

55 3/4 × 68 in. (141.6 × 172.7 cm)
framed: 57 1/16 × 68 15/16 × 2 5/16 in. (144.9 × 175.1 × 5.9 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935

Accession Number

1995.32.8

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Leo Castelli Gallery, NY, 11/30/61
Bibliography
  • James Rondeau and Sheena Wagstaff, Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012), 120, 346–7, fig. 9
  • Jennifer Farrell, "Reflections on a Gift: Richard Brown Baker and Roy Lichtenstein," in "Recent Acquisitions," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2008), 46–47, fig. 1
  • Norine S. Hendricks, "Pop Goes the Artist," Timeline: A Publication of the Ohio Historical Society 17, no. 5 (September/October 2000), 15, 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), 67, 139, no. 83, ill
Object copyright
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
In Copyright
Additional information

Subject

detergent hands (animal or human component) washing machine

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