The Chief
1956
Artist, American, 1923 - 1997
Printer, American

Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 45.1 x 27.2 cm (17 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.)
sheet: 54.4 x 42.8 cm (21 7/16 x 16 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1996.56.26
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Catalogue Raisonné
Corlett/Fine 2002, no. 29
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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. 12.
2019
Roy Lichtenstein: Multiple Visions, Museo delle Culture, Milan, Italy, 2019, pp. 68-69.
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. 29.
2019
Museo delle culture.Roy Lichtenstein: multiple visions. Milan, 2019, pp. 69.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: The Chief 1956; lower right in graphite: Lichtenstein 7/25
Wikidata ID
Q75119320