A Pop Artist's Fascination With the First Americans : Roy Lichtenstein

Fellow docent Biz suggests another NYTimes article ....

A Pop Artist's Fascination With the First Americans

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/arts/design/23lich.html?ex=1292994000&en=65d7fcd4e8da7b0f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Can there possibly be anything about the work of Roy Lichtenstein
(1923-1997) that isn't already well known? Well, yes: his interest in
the people of the Old West, particularly American Indians, which led
him to incorporate their motifs in his work.

That interest is explored in an engaging show at the Montclair Art
Museum, "Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters," which puts a
group of Indian-themed Lichtensteins together with Indian artifacts
from the museum's own holdings and a few of the books from the
artist's own collection that helped inspire him. The show was
assembled by Gail Stavitsky, the museum's chief curator, and Twig
Johnson, its curator of Native American Art, in conjunction with the
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

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Regards
Sanjeev

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Biz Lund <mizbiz54@hotmail.com>
Date: Dec 30, 2005 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: When Cubism Fractured Art's Delicate World : Fwd:
interesting article about cubism

sanjeev, here is another one if you can find it. nyt. 12/23/5. "a pop
artist's fascination with the first americans" roy lichtenstein: american
indian encounters