Object number1965.1.7
Seascape I
Portfolio/Seriesfrom the portfolio New York Ten
Date1964
Artist
Roy Lichtenstein
(American, 1923 - 1997)
CultureAmerican
MediumScreenprint on lenticular plastic sheet (translucent Rowlux), published 1965
EditionEdition 97 of 200 plus 25 proofs (lettered A through Y), plus small number of AP/dedicated proofs
DimensionsImage: 17 x 22 in. (43.2 x 55.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Thomas Petschek (Joyce Sherman, class of 1955)
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn verso, signed lower right edge in pencil: Roy Lichtenstein
InscribedOn verso, by artist, lower right edge in pencil: 97/200; by unidentified hand, lower right corner: 1965.1.7
Catalogue raisonnéCorlett 36BibliographyBrier, Jessica D.. On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2022, pl. 37; Corlett, Mary Lee, and Ruth E. Fine. The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1997. New York and Washington, D.C.: Hudson Hills Press and the National Gallery of Art, 2002, no. 36 Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryPictures of Nothing: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, July 12 - September 8, 2013; On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, August 20 - December 22, 2022
DescriptionA seascape comprised of small, evenly-spaced blue dots against a white background with a blue horizon line. The sky is made with a clear lenticular material that produces a reflective hexagonal pattern that is slightly larger than the blue dots of the sea below.
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