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Roy Lichtenstein: Biography
Roy Lichtenstein was born in 1923 in New York. In 1939 - 40 he studied under Reginald Marsh at the Art Students' League. NY, and 1940 - 43 and 1946 - 49 at Ohio State University, Columbus, where he completed his studies with an M.A. between these two periods of his studies he did his military service in Europe. Between 1949 and 1951 he taught at Ohio State University. In 1951 he had his first one - man exhibition at the Carlebach Gallery, New York. Until 1957 he worked as a commercial artist and designer and did display work for shop windows. His paintings and drawings were parodies of American twenties art, e.g. Remington's cowboy - and - Indian scenes. From 1957 to 1960 he taught at New York State University, Oswego, NY. His work passed through a non - representational, Abstract - Expressionist phase. In 1960 he became acquainted with Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg. He began to use typical elements of commercial art, comics and advertisements in his drawings and paintings. From 1960 to 1963 he taught at Douglas College, Rutgers University, NY. In 1963 in 1962 he had a one - man show at the Leo Castelli Gallery, NY. In 1963 he moved to New York. He was commissioned by the architect Philip Johnson to produce large format paintings for the New York State Pavilion at the World's Fair in New York and had his first one - man exhibition in Europe at the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris. He was given his first American retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Cleveland. He was represented at the Venice Biennale in 1966, 1968 and 1970. in 1967/68 he had a retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum, also shown at Minneapolis, Amsterdam, London, Berne and Hanover. He was represented at the "documenta 4" and "5", Kassel, in 1968 and 1972, respectively. In 1969 he was given a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY. He had a retrospective of his drawings in 1975 at the Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, also shown in Berlin. In 1979 he received his first public commission for a sculpture. He made the "Mermaid" for the Theatre of the Performing Arts, Miami Beach FL. He painted the series "American Indians". In 1981 the St. Louis Art Museum organized a comprehensive retrospective of his work which toured the USA, Europe and Japan. In 1982 he rented a loft in NY in addition to his studio in Southampton. In 1985 he produced a mural for the Equitable Center, NY. In 1987 he had a retrospective of his drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, and at the Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 1988.
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