Research Files, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
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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: 2007-2016
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.lichfoun, Subseries 5.4
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content: Archival materials
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content: Material is grouped by type. The first and largest grouping, artwork research, follows the original order imposed by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. This order is by subject and loosely chronological. For artwork research, each folder is digitized first which includes the name and "RL" number of the work, followed by its contents.
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content: This subseries consists of research conducted by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation staff. The bulk of material here is research into potential sources for Lichtenstein's paintings. Sources identified in this project are speculative and have not been confirmed. The bulk of the research files are photocopies. Files include reproductions of comic panels, articles, books from Lichtenstein's library, works by other artists, works by Lichtenstein as self-references, copies of Lichtenstein's correspondence found with General Files in series 3, and other images that may be a source for a work by Lichtenstein. Scattered correspondence regarding possible sources, original clippings, brochures, and books are found among the files. Folders also include print-outs of each artwork record, identified by their unique four-digit "RL" number. These were printed at the time of research, so information may not be up to date. Please consult the online catalogue raisonné for the most accurate information about the artworks. Similar research was conducted for the source notebooks, Lichtenstein's photographs, and other source material. This research includes reproductions of notebook pages, photographs, and other sources with annotations referencing the four-digit "RL" number or a five-digit number assigned to the sources themselves. Artwork records and their "RL" numbers will be accessible through the online catalogue raisonné and the five-digit number identifying source material can be found in the digital spreadsheets in subseries 5.1 and 5.2. The digital spreadsheet here (ER00009) links artwork "RL" numbers to clippings identified by the Foundation as direct sources. This subseries also contains a print-out of David Barsalou's website and related information. Barsalou's website pairs potential source with Lichtenstein's paintings. Also filed here are several folders pertaining to the acquisition of comic books following the artist's death. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, efforts were made by Estate and Foundation staff to acquire complete versions of the comic books in Lichtenstein's collection. Both Lichtenstein's original comic books and those acquired later are filed in subseries 5.1, along with many other original sources. Filed last in this subseries is a collection of comic books from unknown origins. Although the Foundation does not know how the comics came to be in the collection, they do not believe they belonged to Lichtenstein.