186 Roy Lichtenstein works donated to museums in honour of the artist’s one hundredth birthday

The Roy Lichtenstein Basis will donate 186 artworks and different supplies by the late Pop artist to 5 museums in anticipation of what would have been Roy Lichtenstein’s one hundredth birthday in October.

The establishments receiving donations are the Albertina in Vienna; the Colby School Museum of Artwork in Waterville, Maine; the Nasher Museum of Artwork at Duke College in Durham, North Carolina; the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork (Lacma) and the Whitney Museum of American Artwork in New York’s Meatpacking District—which acquired the artist’s close by studio constructing as a present from his widow Dorothy Lichtenstein final yr. The muse will distribute prints, drawings, sculptures, work and archival movies among the many 5 establishments.

“We’re delighted to get an early begin on the centenary by making presents of artwork to those 5 excellent museums, every of which has a historical past of sharing Lichtenstein’s work with the general public,” Jack Cowart, govt director of the Roy Lichtenstein Basis, mentioned in an announcement.

The Whitney Museum is already residence to a big assortment of Lichtenstein’s work and can obtain one other 66 objects from the inspiration, together with preparatory works associated to the artist’s Instances Sq. Mural (1994) print course of supplies and uncommon drawings for his Three Landscapes movie (1969-70).

The muse gifted 34 works on paper spanning from 1948 and 1997 to the Albertina, together with early woodcuts and linoleum cuts, and lithographs and screenprints from later in his profession. A choice of these works is already on view in Vienna in an exhibition on the Albertina Fashionable dedicated to fashionable and modern printmaking. The remainder of the donation will present the premise for a centennial celebration presently being deliberate by the establishment for 2024.

The Colby School Museum of Artwork and the Nasher Museum of Artwork at Duke College—which final yr co-organised a travelling exhibition of Lichtenstein’s work made between 1948 and 1960—acquired a joint reward of Composition (1955), one of many artist’s seminal mixed-media works made up of painted scrap wooden, bolts and screws. Individually, the inspiration gifted Colby two Lichtenstein works on paper, 4 work and one sculpture; the Nasher is receiving two works on paper, 5 work and one sculpture.

The muse has earmarked 70 objects associated to Lichtenstein’s Three Landscapes movie challenge for Lacma. The movie was initially commissioned by museum and it served as a core factor within the museum’s groundbreaking 1971 exhibition Artwork and Expertise.

“Given his modesty, Roy won’t have wished to fuss over this anniversary, however I’m positive he would have been thrilled to know that in his hundredth yr, his work appears as recent, radical and related as ever, and is now being honoured as a everlasting achievement,” Dorothy Lichtenstein, the president of the inspiration’s board, mentioned in an announcement.

Lichtenstein was born 23 October 1923 and died in 2017. The muse will mark what would have been Lichtenstein’s one hundredth birthday by means of presents, exhibitions and different programming. The muse already suggested the US Postal Service for a sequence of commemorative stamps based mostly on Lichtenstein’s work.

On Thursday, the property of Dada artist Hans Arp revealed it will donate 220 sculptures by the late artist to 10 museums all over the world. And earlier this spring, in one other centennial act of generosity, the Ellsworth Kelly Basis gave grants and artworks by Kelly—whose one hundredth birthday was Wednesday (31 Could)—to 50 museums throughout the US.