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[Pow] Sweet Dreams, Baby

Artist Roy Lichtenstein American, 1923-1997

Publisher Original Editions, Inc., New York

Date1966

DimensionsOverall: 37 1/2 x 27 5/8 in. (95.3 x 70.2 cm)

MediumScreenprint (silk-screen)

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1971.156

Not on View

Collections

Works on Paper

Exhibition HistoryTMA show, August 16-November 8.1999 TMA Contempary Realistic Prints: Mar. 17, - June 3, 1984 TMA Persistent Realities, Contemporary Prints: Sept. 2, - Nov. 12, 1979 Toledo Museum of Art, Pop Prints from the TMA Collection, July 7 - October 8, 2006. TMA Persistent Realities, Contemporary Prints: Sept. 2, - Nov. 12, 1978. Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.Label TextRichard Hamilton, one of the originators of Pop Art, described the style as “Popular; Transient; Expendable; Low Cost; Mass Produced; Young; Witty; Sexy; Gimmicky; Glamorous; and Big Business,” in a letter dated January 26, 1957. Roy Lichtenstein, like Hamilton and other Pop artists, produced art that usurped mass media and consumerism, such as ads and comic books. He re-contextualized imagery from mass culture in an emotionally detached way, going so far as to remove all traces of the artist’s hand from the finished work. Lichtenstein was born in New York City and began drawing as a hobby when he was a teenager. He attended Ohio State University where he later founded the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center, named after a respected and influential teacher. He began making Pop Art paintings featuring cartoon imagery and exaggerated Ben-Day dots (a process for producing color in cheaply printed material) in the early 1960s.