Donation
Roy Lichtenstein
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation is donating 186 works of art and other materials by the late artist to five museums in anticipation of what would have been Roy Lichtenstein’s one-hundredth birthday in October 2023. The institutions receiving donations are the Albertina, Vienna; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, which received the artist’s nearby studio building as a gift from his widow Dorothy Lichtenstein last year. The foundation will distribute prints, drawings, sculptures, paintings, and archival films among the five museums.
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Roy Lichtenstein, Apple and Lemon, 1983 © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
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