ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923–1997) HAS LONG BEEN CONSIDERED ONE OF THE KEY FIGURES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF POP ART. HIS SIGNATURE BRIGHTLY COLOURED PAINTINGS ARE CORNERSTONES OF MUSEUM COLLECTIONS THE WORLD OVER. HIS SUBJECT MATTER DRAWN FROM VISUAL FRAGMENTS OF POPULAR CULTURE IS EMBLEMATIC OF AN ENTIRE MOVEMENT. AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW EXHIBITION ORGANIZED BY THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM, OPENING 24.SEPTEMBER, PRESENTS AN IMPORTANT SERIES OF LARGE-SCALE, BLACK AND WHITE WORKS AS A GROUP FOR THE FIRST TIME AND EXAMINES LICHTENSTEIN'S LESS KNOWN EXPLORATION OF THE MEDIUM OF DRAWING. CREATED DURING THE EARLY AND MID-1960s, THE FIFTY-FIVE DRAWINGS ON VIEW OFFER A REVEALING WINDOW INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF LICHTENSTEIN'S ART, AS HE BEGAN FOR THE FIRST TIME TO APPROPRIATE COMMERCIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND COMIC STRIPS AS SUBJECT MATTER AND EXPERIMENTED STYLISTICALLY WITH SIMULATING COMMERCIAL TECHNIQUES OF REPRODUCTION, THE FAMOUS BENDAY DOTS. THE WORK REPRESENTS AN ESSENTIAL AND ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION TO POP ART AS WELL AS TO THE HISTORY OF DRAWING. 'ROY LICHTENSTEIN: THE BLACK AND WHITE DRAWINGS, 1961-1968' IS ON VIEW THROUGH 2.JANUARY.
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