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Print
Lincoln Center (Poster)
Roy Lichtenstein, (New York, NY, 1923 - 1997, New York, NY)
Lichtenstein, Roy
United States
1923 - 1997
Male
45 x 29 5/8 in. (114.4 x 75.2 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1966
1966
1966
1900-2000, 20th century, advertising, lithographs, New York city
Print
This Pop Art poster was created to advertise the fourth New York film festival at Lincoln Center in 1966. With primary colors and his signature Ben Day dots (used in commercial printing to produce halftones), Lichtenstein integrated bold elements to create an attention-getting image that would be visible on city streets. He was paid to design the poster by the Lincoln Center Poster Project, which was begun by New York philanthropist Vera List. In an interview in 1973, Mrs. List described her reason for creating the project:
"I’ve always believed that one’s environment is what stimulates people. It’s what stimulated me as a child…you’d go to Paris and see all the exciting posters around there which were very colorful and stimulating…but you walk around New York, and you see the three-sheeter. So that gave birth to the idea of allocating a certain sum for posters. The idea was to commission the fine artist, the creative artist of the time…to bring to the general public –they walk down the street, they see an image, something would attract them, and something would happen…I always felt that if people’s sensibilities were awakened, they would seek to make the whole city a more amenable place in which to live. So that’s how that started."
[Label text, 2003]
lower leftlower right, in image, Monogram with text printed in an oval shape
Shelley Lee
1992.51
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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