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

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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 fires

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