Roy Lichtenstein Brushstroke, 1965, Screen print on paper; edition 26/280 22 ⅛ in × 28 7/16 in
Purchased with Art Acquisition Funds; Photography Stephen Petegorsky
©Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
The UMCA’s collection of American Pop Art looks back on the 1960s and 1970s as a time before the U.S. art world was global, and when it might even be described as regional and definitively New York-centric. Pop art often calls to mind a celebration of postwar consumer culture, but at the same time distorts and critiques the American dream. By blurring the boundaries between “high” art and “low,” these artists presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books, and mundane mass-produced objects.
Artists
Jasper Johns
Roy Lichtenstein
Claus Oldenburg
Robert Rauschenberg
James Rosenquist
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein; New York Leo Castelli Gallery (Publisher), American (1923-1997)
Brushstroke, 1965
Screenprint on paper
Robert Rauschenberg, American (1925-2008)
Untitled from the Paris Review Print Series, 1965
Lithograph on paper
Jasper Johns, American (1930- )
Land's End, 1979
Lithograph on Kurotani handmade paper
Andy Warhol, American (1928-1987)
Shoes, 1980
Screenprint and diamond dust on Arches Aquarelle (Cold Pressed) paper
Andy Warhol, American (1928-1987)
Karen Kain, 1980
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
James Albert Rosenquist, American (1933-2017)
Zone, 1972, 1972
Lithograph on Hodgkinson handmade paper
Claes Thure Oldenburg, American, born Sweden (1929-2022 )
Alternative Proposal for an Addition to the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, 1979 Hard and soft-ground etching, aquatint and spitbite in nine colors on Rives BFK paper