Roy
Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
was born October 27, 1923, in New York City. In 1939, he studied
under Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League in New York,
and the following year under Hoyt L. Sherman at the School of
Fine Arts at Ohio State University, Columbus. He served in the
army from 1943 to 1946, after which he resumed his studies and
was hired as an instructor. He obtained an M.F.A. in 1949. In
1951, the Carlebach Gallery, New York, organized a solo exhibition
of his semi-abstract paintings of the old West. Shortly thereafter,
the artist moved to Cleveland, where he continued painting while
working as an engineering draftsman to support his growing family.
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