Research Files, Michael Lobel, Author and Art Historian
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content: Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
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content: Roy Lichtenstein Foundation records and Roy Lichtenstein papers
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content: Roy Lichtenstein Foundation records and Roy Lichtenstein papers / Series 5: Source Material Files
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content: 1961-2005
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.lichfoun, Subseries 5.5
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content: Archival materials
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content: This subseries includes research conducted by author and art historian, Michael Lobel, for his 1999 Yale University doctoral dissertation and his 2002 book Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art. Lobel sought out Lichtenstein's source material in the newspapers the artist would have seen in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the Washington Post and local newspapers from New York and New Jersey such as Daily Home News, Sunday Home News, and the Newark Star-Ledger. Lobel was successful in identifying many previously unknown sources through this method for paintings including Wimpy (Tweet), Emeralds, Mr. Bellamy, as well as many product paintings from the early 1960s. Files contain research notes, photocopies of newspaper advertisements and comics, photographic reproductions of Lichtenstein's source material, as well as over a dozen comic books Lobel acquired, including All American Men of War, Girls' Romances, Our Fighting Forces, Secret Hearts, and others.