Source Material Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
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content: Roy Lichtenstein Foundation records and Roy Lichtenstein papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14.8 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-17, OV 18; ER00001-ER00009)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929-2019
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lichfoun, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged as five subseries.

5.1: Comic Books, Newspaper and Advertisement Clippings, and Other Printed Material, 1929-2019

5.2: Photographs by Roy Lichtenstein and Other Photographic Material, circa 1960-2019

5.3: Notebooks, circa 1960-2019

5.4: Research Files, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, 1950-2019

5.5: Research Files, Michael Lobel, Professor of Art History at Hunter College, 1961-circa 2000
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes a combination of original source and reference material collected or created by Roy Lichtenstein in addition to material and reproductions collected, curated, and researched by the artist's studio staff and later, Foundation. Source and reference material was integral to Lichtenstein's practice; his body of work "is rooted in a carefully calibrated process that generally takes an image or idea from a commercially printed source through several drawing and collage stages en route to finished paintings or sculpture" (Fine 2007, 27). Source material files include whole and cut comic books, comic book clippings, newspaper and advertisement clippings, brochures, catalogs, reproductions of book pages from Lichtenstein's Southampton library, reproductions of photographs and original negatives by Lichtenstein, photographs by others, stock photographs, digital image files of Lichtenstein's source notebooks, and research material gathered by author and art historian Michael Lobel.