ROY
LICHTENSTEIN

Reflections on The Scream, 1990

Screenprint, woodcut,and metalized PVC collage with embossing
48 3/4 in. x 65 1/4 in. (123.83 cm x 165.74 cm)
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art; © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Reflections on Hair, 1990

Lithograph, screenprint, woodcut, and metalized PVC collage with embossing
53 5/8 in. x 67 in. (136.21 cm x 170.18 cm
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art; © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Reflections on Conversation, 1990

Lithograph, screenprint woodcut, and metalized PVC collage with embossing
53 5/8 in. x 67 in 136.21 cm x 170.18 cm
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art; © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

                 American
1923, New York City, New York
1997, New York City, New York

ABOUT

Although trained as an abstract painter, Roy Lichtenstein became a pioneer of Pop art famed for paintings
based on generic romance books and war comics. Lichtenstein transferred the clichéd comic-book
compositions to canvas with a projector and simplified them; the resulting paintings mimic the impersonal
appearance of cheap four-color printing, despite being meticulously handmade. Characteristic of this work
are the enlarged benday dots that would become Lichtenstein's signature mark.

Lichtenstein abandoned working on comics paintings by the mid-1960s, but he retained a lifelong interest in
the mass media. His later work often addressed how an artwork's meaning changed when it was reproduced
and distributed as a commercial image.