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Roy Lichtenstein Untitled ca. 1943 drawing Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein Pilot ca. 1948 pastel and graphite on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein Variations no. 7 1959 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein Untitled ca. 1959 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein Man with Chest-Expander ca. 1961 drawing Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein In 1962 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein Girl in Window (Study for World's Fair Mural) 1963 oil and acrylic on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein Turkey Shopping-Bag 1964 screenprint on paper bag Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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Roy Lichtenstein Temple 1964 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein This Must Be The Place 1965 screenprint Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein Little Big Painting 1965 oil and acrylic on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein Landscape no. 5 1967 screenprint with collage and felt-pen on plastic Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein Preparedness 1968 oil on canvas (three panels) Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein Night Seascape before 1977 collage of felt fabric Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Roy Lichtenstein Girl with Tear I 1977 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein Reflections on Brushstrokes 1990 screenprint, woodcut, lithograph and collage Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Roy Lichtenstein Interior with Mirrored Wall 1991 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
from The Opera Company
The rival sopranos sang on alterante evenings.
The maid of one was sent
To fumigate the prima donna's dressing room
After the other had used it – who retaliated
By praising everything about the first:
Technique, beauty, age.
From the one's throat
Spurted into darkness
Gouts of adamantine, a panoramic ramp
Lit and ascended in cold blood.
Those heights attacked, she struck
One ravishing blank attitude
Against the dead composer's starry mind.
The other's eyelids shut,
An autumn-rose hallucination rippled
Over waves, inward. Rock would blush
And seed swell, yes, and rapture flaw itself.
Another season, and the very song
Had forked, had broken
Flowing into clay.
Came the inevitable war. The one
Married a copper magnate and performed
Before the enemy. The other
Opened a ranch for divorcées.
– James Merrill (1969)