Notebooks
name: label: Collection Creator
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
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1960s-1994
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lichfoun, Subseries 5.3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: This subseries consists of digital image files for six of Roy Lichtenstein's source notebooks. Dating from the 1960s-1994, these books are filled with clippings from comic books, newspapers, magazines, and product brochures. Two notebooks were titled by Lichtenstein, Interiors and Rooms, while the remainder of the titles were given by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and are taken from the manufacturer or type of notebook. Comic clippings are from comic book titles including Blondie, Girls' Romances, Heart Throbs, Secret Hearts, Young Romance, and others. Clippings from other commercially printed material depict a wide variety of everyday consumer products including food items, home appliances, domestic and office interiors, furniture, office supplies, clothing, flowers, plants, dinnerware, as well as representative images of more abstract commodities such as vacation sites and apartment floor plans. Minibook Notebook was created while Lichtenstein was at the American Academy in Rome in 1989 and contains many clippings from Roman advertisements and yellow pages. Recollections from studio assistant Robert McKeever suggest that Roy was the sole creator of these books. While these notebooks were primarily used as a place to collect source and reference images, there are a few original drawings and sketches found among the pages as well.