The Heavier-than-Air Machine
1953
Artist, American, 1923 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
color woodcut on Japanese paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 31.4 x 38.3 cm (12 3/8 x 15 1/16 in.)
sheet: 42.6 x 52.4 cm (16 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1996.56.21
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Catalogue Raisonné
Corlett/Fine 2002, no. 23A
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Copyright
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
the artist, New York; acquired 1996 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1994
The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, 1994-1995, no. 10.
2019
Roy Lichtenstein: Multiple Visions, Museo delle Culture, Milan, Italy, 2019, p. 67.
2021
Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; Columbus Museum of Art; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, 2021-2023 (shown only in Water Mill).
Bibliography
2002
Corlett, Mary Lee, and Ruth E. Fine. The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1997. New York and Washington, D.C.: Hudson Hills Press and the National Gallery of Art, 2002, no. 23A.
2019
Museo delle culture.Roy Lichtenstein: multiple visions. Milan, 2019, pp. 67.
Inscriptions
lower left to lower center in graphite: The Heavier-than-Air Machine 1953; lower right in graphite: Lichtenstein artist's proof
Wikidata ID
Q75119310