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96-711: The library houses artwork by Roy Lichtenstein and Le Corbusier . The library participates in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Enhance program that allows the library to correct or add information to bibliographic records in WorldCat . In 1938, Cal Poly opened its doors to 80 students on September 15, 1938, on the former site of the Voorhis School for Boys in San Dimas. This rural setting provided one room (measuring 33 feet by 45 feet) to get designated as

192-473: A Dean-level position to reflect the prominence of the library on campus. He also wanted to bring the job in line with the other California State University academic libraries. In 1986, the library held the first First Golden Leaves Award. Library employees hold this event every year to highlight and honor faculty publications. The library adds a copy of each book to the Library’s collection. January 1988 marked

288-643: A Woman . Derry Noyes served as the stamp series' art director and designer. In 1949, Lichtenstein married Isabel Wilson, who previously had been married to Ohio artist Michael Sarisky . However, the brutal upstate winters took a toll on Lichtenstein and his wife, after he began teaching at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1958. The couple sold the family home in Highland Park, New Jersey , in 1963 and divorced in 1965. Lichtenstein married his second wife, Dorothy Herzka , (1939–2024), in 1968. In

384-752: A ceramicist who sculpted the form of the head out of clay. He then applied a glaze to create the same sort of graphic motifs that he used in his paintings; the application of black lines and Ben-Day dots to three-dimensional objects resulted in a flattening of the form. Most of Lichtenstein's best-known works are relatively close, but not exact, copies of comic book panels, a subject he largely abandoned in 1965, though he would occasionally incorporate comics into his work in different ways in later decades. These panels were originally drawn by such comics artists as Jack Kirby and DC Comics artists Russ Heath , Tony Abruzzo, Irv Novick , and Jerry Grandenetti , who rarely received any credit. Jack Cowart , executive director of

480-421: A film. With the help of Universal Film Studios , the artist conceived of, and produced, Three Landscapes , a film of marine landscapes, directly related to a series of collages with landscape themes he created between 1964 and 1966. Although Lichtenstein had planned to produce 15 short films, the three-screen installation – made with New York-based independent filmmaker Joel Freedman  – turned out to be

576-459: A ground radar system outage along with a broken water heater, causing flooding in the checked luggage preparation area of Terminal 7. Minor injuries from falling ceiling tiles were reported at a medical clinic in Brea . The earthquake affected candidates who were in the first day of the three-day California Bar Exam in nearby Ontario and Los Angeles. The State Bar ultimately did not count that portion of

672-451: A high art context, appropriate it and elevate it into something else." Although Lichtenstein's comic-based work gained some acceptance, concerns are still expressed by critics who say Lichtenstein did not credit, pay any royalties to, or seek permission from the original artists or copyright holders. In an interview for a BBC Four documentary in 2013, Alastair Sooke asked the comic book artist Dave Gibbons if he considered Lichtenstein

768-625: A homemaker. Lichtenstein was raised on New York City's Upper West Side and attended public school until he was 12. Lichtenstein then attended New York's Dwight School , graduating in 1940. He first became interested in art and design as a hobby, through school. Lichtenstein was an avid jazz fan, often attending concerts at the Apollo Theater in Harlem . He frequently drew portraits of the musicians playing their instruments. In 1939, his last year of high school, Lichtenstein enrolled in summer classes at

864-494: A leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody. Inspired by the comic strip , Lichtenstein produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. His artwork was considered to be "disruptive". Lichtenstein described pop art as "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting". His paintings were exhibited at

960-465: A limited number of researchers into the reading area on a per-reservation basis based on guidance from the health services of LA county. Roy Lichtenstein Roy Fox Lichtenstein ( / ˈ l ɪ k t ən ˌ s t aɪ n / ; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist . During the 1960's, along with Andy Warhol , Jasper Johns , and James Rosenquist , he became

1056-635: A man looking through a hole in a door. It was sold by collector Courtney Sale Ross for $ 43 million, double its estimate, at Christie's in New York City in 2011; the seller's husband, Steve Ross had acquired it at auction in 1988 for $ 2.1 million. The painting measures four-foot by four-foot and is in graphite and oil. 2008 Chino Hills earthquake The 2008 Chino Hills earthquake occurred at 11:42:15 am PDT (18:42:15 UTC ) on July 29 in Southern California . The epicenter of

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1152-404: A medium favored by Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein , as well as Dix and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . Also in the late 1970s, Lichtenstein's style was replaced with more surreal works such as Pow Wow (1979, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen ). A major series of Surrealist-Pop paintings from 1979 to 1981 is based on Native American themes. These works range from Amerind Figure (1981),

1248-428: A patronizing view of comics by the art mainstream; cartoonist Art Spiegelman commented that "Lichtenstein did no more or less for comics than Andy Warhol did for soup." Lichtenstein's works based on enlarged panels from comic books engendered a widespread debate about their merits as art. Lichtenstein himself admitted, "I am nominally copying, but I am really restating the copied thing in other terms. In doing that,

1344-580: A plagiarist. Gibbons replied: "I would say 'copycat'. In music for instance, you can't just whistle somebody else's tune or perform somebody else's tune, no matter how badly, without somehow crediting and giving payment to the original artist. That's to say, this is 'WHAAM! by Roy Lichtenstein, after Irv Novick'." Sooke himself maintains that "Lichtenstein transformed Novick's artwork in a number of subtle but crucial ways." Journal founder, City University London lecturer and University College London PhD, Ernesto Priego notes that Lichtenstein's failure to credit

1440-482: A significant impact on his future work (Lichtenstein would later name a new studio he funded at OSU as the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center). Lichtenstein entered the graduate program at Ohio State and was hired as an art instructor, a post he held on and off for the next ten years. In 1949, Lichtenstein earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio State University. In 1951, Lichtenstein had his first solo exhibition at

1536-540: A solo show by the artist sold out before it opened. Beginning in 1962, the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, held regular exhibitions of the artist's work. Gagosian Gallery has been exhibiting work by Lichtenstein since 1996. Big Painting No. 6 (1965) became the highest priced Lichtenstein work in 1970. Like the entire Brushstrokes series , the subject of the painting is the process of Abstract Expressionist painting via sweeping brushstrokes and drips, but

1632-682: A songwriter, was born. His second son, Mitchell Lichtenstein , was born two years later. In 1957, Lichtenstein moved back to upstate New York and began teaching again. It was at this time that he adopted the Abstract Expressionism style, being a late convert to this style of painting. Lichtenstein began teaching in upstate New York at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1958. Around this time, he began to incorporate hidden images of cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny into his abstract works. In 1960, Lichtenstein started teaching at Rutgers University where he

1728-511: A stylized life-size sculpture reminiscent of a streamlined totem pole in black-patinated bronze, to the monumental wool tapestry Amerind Landscape (1979). The "Indian" works took their themes, like the other parts of the Surrealist series, from contemporary art and other sources, including books on American Indian design from Lichtenstein's small library. Lichtenstein's Still Life paintings, sculptures and drawings, which span from 1972 through

1824-565: A then record $ 16.2m (£10m). In 2010, Lichtenstein's cartoon-style 1964 painting Ohhh...Alright... , previously owned by Steve Martin and later by Steve Wynn , was sold at a record US$ 42.6m (£26.7m) at a sale at Christie's in New York. Based on a 1961 William Overgard drawing for a Steve Roper cartoon story, Lichtenstein's I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It! (1961) depicts

1920-407: A time when comic artists often declined attribution for their work. In an account published in 1998, Novick said that he had met Lichtenstein in the army in 1947 and, as his superior officer, had responded to Lichtenstein's tearful complaints about the menial tasks he was assigned by recommending him for a better job. Jean-Paul Gabilliet has questioned this account, saying that Lichtenstein had left

2016-530: A week starting on September 7, 2021. Special Collections and Archives consists of 4 main collecting areas surrounding themes relevant to the university's mission. Many resources are available online to help better utilize these collections and get researchers jump-started with their primary source research needs. During the COVID-19 Pandemic , all Special Collections and Archives services moved to virtual services. Special Collections and Archives started letting

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2112-665: Is a recurring element in Lichtenstein's work of the 1990s, such as in Collage for Nude with Red Shirt (1995). In addition to paintings and sculptures, Lichtenstein also made over 300 prints, mostly in screenprinting . In 1969, Lichtenstein was commissioned by Gunter Sachs to create Composition and Leda and the Swan , for the collector's Pop Art bedroom suite at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz . In

2208-511: Is different from comic strips – but I wouldn't call it transformation; I don't think that whatever is meant by it is important to art". When Lichtenstein's work was first exhibited, many art critics of the time challenged its originality. His work was harshly criticized as vulgar and empty. The title of a Life magazine article in 1964 asked, "Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?" Lichtenstein responded to such claims by offering responses such as

2304-554: The 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake , which caused serious structural damage and fatalities—this quake caused only minor damage. However, the high volume of telephone use following the shock overloaded provider capacity and disrupted service into the afternoon. Amusement rides at Disneyland , Six Flags Magic Mountain , Universal Studios Hollywood and Knott's Berry Farm were evacuated and temporarily shut down. California State University, Fullerton suffered some damage in its older, inadequately engineered buildings. In Orange ,

2400-586: The Army Specialized Training Program , and pilot training, all of which were cancelled, Lichtenstein served as an orderly, draftsman, and artist. Lichtenstein returned home to visit his dying father and was discharged from the Army with eligibility for the G.I. Bill . Lichtenstein returned to studies in Ohio under the supervision of one of his teachers, Hoyt L. Sherman , who is widely regarded to have had

2496-464: The Art Students League of New York , where he worked under the tutelage of Reginald Marsh . Lichtenstein then left New York to study at Ohio State University , which offered studio courses and a degree in fine arts. His studies were interrupted by a three-year stint in the Army during and after World War II between 1943 and 1946. After being in training programs for languages, engineering in

2592-481: The Carlebach Gallery in New York. He moved to Cleveland that same year, where he remained for six years, although Lichtenstein frequently traveled back to New York. During this time, he undertook jobs as varied as a draftsman to a window decorator in between periods of painting. Lichtenstein's work at this time fluctuated between Cubism and Expressionism. In 1954, his first son, David Hoyt Lichtenstein, now

2688-654: The Chapman University School of Law was evacuated after a water pipe was ruptured. Pipes on a Macy's department store in Westfield Topanga ruptured during the tremor flooding the store which closed for a couple of days in order to be repaired. A light fixture damaged by the shock started a small fire in the Westfield MainPlace Mall in Santa Ana ; since the fire was in an empty movie theater, nobody

2784-500: The El Toro Y Interchange. The roof of Placentia 's public library nearly collapsed; afterwards, the building was closed for repairs. Electrical outages were reported in Chino , Chino Hills , Diamond Bar and Pomona . Over 2,000 people lost power after a fire broke out at a La Habra power station, but electricity was restored that afternoon. Los Angeles International Airport reported

2880-480: The Ferus Gallery , Pace Gallery , Gagosian Gallery , Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Mary Boone , Brooke Alexander Gallery , Carlebach, Rosa Esman, Marilyn Pearl, James Goodman, John Heller, Blum Helman, Hirschl & Adler, Phyllis Kind , Getler Pall, Condon Riley, 65 Thompson Street, Holly Solomon, and Sperone Westwater Galleries among others. Leo Castelli Gallery represented Lichtenstein exclusively since 1962, when

2976-719: The George Washington University (1996), Bard College , Royal College of Art (1993), Ohio State University (1987), Southampton College (1980), and the California Institute of the Arts (1977). He also served on the board of the Brooklyn Academy of Music . In 2023, five of Lichtenstein's paintings will be featured on USPS Forever stamps : Standing Explosion (Red) , Modern Painting I , Still Life with Crystal Bowl , Still Life with Goldfish , and Portrait of

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3072-676: The Guggenheim Museum in 1969, organized by Diane Waldman . The Guggenheim presented a second Lichtenstein retrospective in 1994. Lichtenstein became the first living artist to have a solo drawing exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art from March – June 1987. Recent retrospective surveys include the 2003 "All About Art", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art , in Denmark (which traveled on to the Hayward Gallery , London, Museo Reina Sofia , Madrid, and

3168-652: The Leo Castelli Gallery in 1963, and (now at the Tate Modern) has remained in their collection ever since. In 1968, the Darmstadt entrepreneur Karl Ströher acquired several major works by Lichtenstein, such as Nurse (1964), Compositions I (1964), We rose up slowly (1964) and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes (1966). After being on loan at the Hessiches Landesmuseum Darmstadt for several years,

3264-475: The Leo Castelli Gallery. The card urged the public to report any information about its whereabouts. In 2012, the foundation authenticated the piece when it surfaced at a New York City warehouse. Between 2008 and 2012, following the death of photographer Harry Shunk in 2006, the Lichtenstein Foundation acquired the collection of photographic material shot by Shunk and his János Kender as well as

3360-507: The Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. Whaam! , Drowning Girl , and Look Mickey proved to be Lichtenstein's most influential works. His most expensive piece is Masterpiece , which was sold for $ 165 million in 2017. Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, into an upper middle class German-Jewish family in New York City. His father, Milton, was a real estate broker, and his mother, Beatrice (née Werner),

3456-556: The Mirrors series, he started work on the subject of entablatures . The Entablatures consisted of a first series of paintings from 1971 to 1972, followed by a second series in 1974–76, and the publication of a series of relief prints in 1976. Lichtenstein produced a series of "Artists Studios" which incorporated elements of his previous work. A notable example being Artist's Studio, Look Mickey (1973, Walker Art Center , Minneapolis ) which incorporates five other previous works, fitted into

3552-711: The National Gallery of Art in Washington, Tate Modern in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2013. 2013:Roy Lichtenstein, Olyvia Fine Art. 2014: Roy Lichtenstein: Intimate Sculptures, The FLAG Art Foundation. Roy Lichtenstein: Opera Prima, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Arts, Turin. 2018: Exhibition at The Tate Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. In 1996 the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. became

3648-697: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , until 2005); and "Classic of the New", Kunsthaus Bregenz (2005), "Roy Lichtenstein: Meditations on Art" Museo Triennale, Milan (2010, traveled to the Museum Ludwig , Cologne). In late 2010 The Morgan Library & Museum showed Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968 . Another major retrospective opened at the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2012 before going to

3744-520: The United States Geological Survey and Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast suggest that an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 or larger will almost definitely occur somewhere in the state within the next 30 years. then-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said: "This earthquake reminds us to be prepared. [...] We were very fortunate that there were no serious injuries or property damage." Additionally, registration for

3840-526: The magnitude 5.4 earthquake was in Chino Hills , c. 28 miles (45 km) east-southeast of downtown Los Angeles . Movement on an oblique-slip fault resulted in a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI ( Strong ). Though there were no deaths, eight people were injured, and it caused considerable damage in numerous structures throughout the area and caused some amusement park facilities to shut down their rides. The earthquake led to increased discussion regarding

3936-549: The 205,000 square foot space. This extension added classrooms, additional library space, offices, and a 24-hour computer lab. On June 23, 2008, the library had a soft re-opening with the new extension. On July 29, 2008, the Chino Hills Earthquake struck, a magnitude 5.4 earthquake south of Cal Poly Pomona. The earthquake did not cause structural damage, but there were lots of cosmetic damage, such as scattered books, cracked paint, and loose light fixtures. The library closed

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4032-738: The 53-foot-long, enamel-on-metal Times Square Mural in Times Square subway station . In 1977, he was commissioned by BMW to paint a Group 5 Racing Version of the BMW 320i for the third installment in the BMW Art Car Project . The DreamWorks Records logo was his last completed project. "I'm not in the business of doing anything like that (a corporate logo) and don't intend to do it again," allows Lichtenstein. "But I know Mo Ostin and David Geffen and it seemed interesting." Lichtenstein received numerous Honorary Doctorate degrees from, among others,

4128-641: The Cal Poly Pomona University Library dedicated the Dean's Conference Room to Dr. Claude Coppel and his late wife, Lynn Coppel. In November 2019, the University Library awarded the inaugural Lynn and Claude Coppel Endowed Student Scholarship that recognizes outstanding library student employees and Library Club members who exhibit academic excellence and made exceptional contributions to the University Library and campus community. On August 19, 2019,

4224-544: The Castelli gallery in 1962; the entire collection was bought by influential collectors before the show even opened. A group of paintings produced between 1961 and 1962 focused on solitary household objects such as sneakers, hot dogs, and golf balls. In September 1963, Lichtenstein took a leave of absence from his teaching position at Douglass College at Rutgers. Lichtenstein's works were inspired by comics featuring war and romantic stories. "At that time", he later recounted, "I

4320-694: The Library increased from 3,700 in 1948 to over 6,500 in 1954. In 1956, the Library collection continued to multiply with the University's enrollment. By 1956 Cal Poly outgrew the San Dimas facilities and moved to its current site in Pomona, formerly the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch. The Administration building housed the new library in three rooms (now the Science building) and had seating for 80 students. Mr. Wells directed moving over 8,000 volumes from San Dimas to Pomona in

4416-432: The Library, with seating for 48 students. It came complete with study tables, a fireplace, and a few hundred books remaining from the Voorhis School. They quickly supplemented the collection with materials necessary to support the agricultural orientation of the college. Lavina Penley was the first librarian to serve Cal Poly, Voorhis Campus, followed by Ruth Hoff, and then by Harold F. Wells in 1954. The number of volumes in

4512-474: The Lichtenstein Foundation, contests the notion that Lichtenstein was a copyist, saying: "Roy's work was a wonderment of the graphic formulae and the codification of sentiment that had been worked out by others. The panels were changed in scale, color, treatment, and in their implications. There is no exact copy." However, some have been critical of Lichtenstein's use of comic-book imagery and art pieces, especially insofar as that use has been seen as endorsement of

4608-606: The Maker Studio officially opened on the 2nd floor of the University Library. The Office of Academic Innovation, the iLab, and grants funded the Maker Studio. It is available for students and faculty. In June 2020, the Cal Poly Pomona campus appointed Patsy (Pat) T. Hawthorne as the Dean of the University Library. The COVID-19 Pandemic led to the building closure of the Cal Poly Pomona University Library. On March 17, 2020, Cal Poly Pomona canceled face-to-face classes in response to

4704-585: The Pomona Valley Area. In late April 2021, the University Library opens the Bronco Lockers, a 24-hour locker service to provide library patrons with a pickup service outside the library building. On May 2, 2021, the library did a pilot re-opening for the last couple of weeks of the spring semester. This pilot re-opening consisted of scheduled appointments on the library building’s second floor, emphasizing social distancing and library safety. The first phase of

4800-811: The army a year before the time Novick says the incident took place. Bart Beaty, noting that Lichtenstein had appropriated Novick for works such as Whaam! and Okay Hot-Shot, Okay! , says that Novick's story "seems to be an attempt to personally diminish" the more famous artist. In 1966, Lichtenstein moved on from his much-celebrated imagery of the early 1960s, and began his Modern Paintings series, including over 60 paintings and accompanying drawings. Using his characteristic Ben-Day dots and geometric shapes and lines, he rendered incongruous, challenging images out of familiar architectural structures, patterns borrowed from Art Déco and other subtly evocative, often sequential, motifs. The Modern Sculpture series of 1967–8 made reference to motifs from Art Déco architecture. In

4896-521: The artist found in telephone books or on billboards. Having garnered inspiration from the monochromatic prints of Edgar Degas featured in a 1994 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the motifs of his Landscapes in the Chinese Style series are formed with simulated Ben-Day dots and block contours, rendered in hard, vivid color, with all traces of the hand removed. The nude

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4992-482: The artist's death in 1997, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation was established in 1999. In 2011, the foundation's board decided the benefits of authenticating were outweighed by the risks of protracted lawsuits. In late 2006, the foundation sent out a holiday card featuring a picture of Electric Cord (1961), a painting that had been missing since 1970 after being sent out to art restorer Daniel Goldreyer by

5088-460: The artist's only venture into the medium. Also in 1970, Lichtenstein purchased a former carriage house in Southampton, Long Island, built a studio on the property, and spent the rest of the 1970s in relative seclusion. In the 1970s and 1980s, his style began to loosen and he expanded on what he had done before. Lichtenstein began a series of Mirrors paintings in 1969. By 1970, while continuing on

5184-578: The basis for a major capital outlay request to renovate and expand the library building to address future needs for capacity and services to support a campus enrollment of 20,000 students. In July 2003, the University Library website added the Rose Float Collection. Later that month, the library announced a major extension that would add an additional wing to the library. Three years later, the library extension groundbreaking ceremony happened. The extension added 101,853 square feet of space in addition to

5280-410: The color positions and sizes. My style looks completely different, but the nature of putting down lines pretty much is the same; mine just don't come out looking calligraphic, like Pollock's or Kline's ." Rather than attempt to reproduce his subjects, Lichtenstein's work tackled the way in which the mass media portrays them. However, he would never take himself too seriously, saying: "I think my work

5376-459: The continued growth of the University Library collection. Celebrating a half-century of growth with the University, the campus dedicated the six-story Library on September 18, 1989; during the ceremony the 500,000th volume,  Ansel Adams: Letters and Images , was officially added to the Library's collection. An architectural site study was completed in April 2000. The resulting Library Master Plan formed

5472-637: The early 1960s, Lichtenstein reproduced masterpieces by Cézanne , Mondrian and Picasso before embarking on the Brushstrokes series in 1965. He continued to revisit this theme later in his career with works such as Bedroom at Arles that derived from Vincent van Gogh 's Bedroom in Arles . In 1970, Lichtenstein was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (within its Art and Technology program developed between 1967 and 1971) to make

5568-440: The early 1980s, cover a variety of motifs and themes, including the most traditional such as fruit, flowers, and vases. In 1983 Lichtenstein made two anti-apartheid posters, simply titled "Against Apartheid". In his Reflection series, produced between 1988 and 1990, Lichtenstein reused his own motifs from previous works. Interiors (1991–1992) is a series of works depicting banal domestic environments inspired by furniture ads

5664-501: The fire control ... and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky ..." This diptych is large in scale, measuring 1.7 x 4.0 m (5 ft 7 in x 13 ft 4 in). Whaam follows the comic strip-based themes of some of his previous paintings and is part of a body of war-themed work created between 1962 and 1964. It is one of his two notable large war-themed paintings. It was purchased by the Tate Gallery in 1966, after being exhibited at

5760-687: The first American to exhibit at the Tate Gallery, London, on the occasion of the show "'54–'64: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade." In 1967, his first museum retrospective exhibition was held at the Pasadena Art Museum in California. The same year, his first solo exhibition in Europe was held at museums in Amsterdam, London, Bern and Hannover. Lichtenstein later participated in documentas IV (1968) and VI in (1977). Lichtenstein had his first retrospective at

5856-451: The following: "The closer my work is to the original, the more threatening and critical the content. However, my work is entirely transformed in that my purpose and perception are entirely different. I think my paintings are critically transformed, but it would be difficult to prove it by any rational line of argument." He discussed experiencing this heavy criticism in an interview with April Bernard and Mimi Thompson in 1986. Suggesting that it

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5952-553: The founding director of the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Peter Iden , was able to acquire a total of 87 works from the Ströher collection in 1981, primarily American Pop Art and Minimal Art for the museum under construction until 1991. Lichtenstein began experimenting with sculpture around 1964, demonstrating a knack for the form that was at odds with the insistent flatness of his paintings. For Head of Girl (1964), and Head with Red Shadow (1965), Lichtenstein collaborated with

6048-587: The gallery was a collaboration between the University Library and the College of Environmental Design. 2013 was the 75th anniversary of the Cal Poly Pomona W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library. Dr. Rui (Ray) Wang stepped down from his position as Library Dean in December 2017 and became Library Dean and Chief Information Officer at the University of New Orleans. Longtime librarian Emma Gibson took over as Interim Library Dean from 2017 to her retirement in 2020. On April 19, 2018,

6144-691: The greater Los Angeles area since the 1994 Northridge earthquake . As reported by The Orange County Register , three microearthquakes , all less than magnitude 3.0, occurred in Anaheim Hills , 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Chino Hills, two months before the Chino Hills earthquake. There was an unusually low amount of seismic activity in Southern California in the week prior to the quake. Between July 20 and 26, 2008, there were no earthquakes in Southern California exceeding magnitude 3.0, thus there

6240-564: The hundreds. In Europe, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne has one of the most comprehensive Lichtenstein holdings with Takka Takka (1962), Nurse (1964), Compositions I (1964), besides the Frankfurt Museum für Moderne Kunst with We rose up slowly (1964) and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes (1966). Outside the United States and Europe, the National Gallery of Australia's Kenneth Tyler Collection has extensive holdings of Lichtenstein's prints, numbering over 300 works. In total there are some 4,500 works thought to be in circulation. After

6336-418: The increasing spread to focus on virtual instruction for safety. It led to the building closure of the University Library. With the focus on virtual instruction, the library created a slate of events and services to aid distance learning. In October 2020, the library’s Special Collections and Archives started a project to collect items, stories, photographs, books, and journals related to the COVID-19 pandemic for

6432-545: The large-scale use of hard-edged figures and Ben-Day dots was Look Mickey (1961, National Gallery of Art , Washington, D.C.). This piece came from a challenge from one of his sons, who pointed to a Mickey Mouse comic book and said; "I bet you can't paint as good as that, eh, Dad?" That same year, Lichtenstein produced six other works with recognizable characters from gum wrappers and cartoons. In 1961, Leo Castelli started displaying Lichtenstein's work at his gallery in New York. Lichtenstein had his first one-man show at

6528-408: The largest single repository of the artist's work when Lichtenstein donated 154 prints and two books. The Art Institute of Chicago has several important works by Lichtenstein in its permanent collection, including Brushstroke with Spatter (1966) and Mirror No. 3 (Six Panels) (1971). The personal holdings of Lichtenstein's widow, Dorothy Lichtenstein, and of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation number in

6624-426: The late 1960s, they rented a house in Southampton, New York that Larry Rivers had bought around the corner from his own house. Three years later, they bought a 1910 carriage house facing the ocean on Gin Lane. From 1970 until his death, Lichtenstein split his time between Manhattan and Southampton. He also had a home on Captiva Island . In 1991, Lichtenstein began an affair with singer Erica Wexler who became

6720-490: The late 1970s and during the 1980s, Lichtenstein received major commissions for works in public places: the sculptures Lamp (1978) in St. Mary's, Georgia ; Mermaid (1979) in Miami Beach; the 26 feet tall Brushstrokes in Flight (1984, moved in 1998) at John Glenn Columbus International Airport ; the five-storey high Mural with Blue Brushstroke (1984–85) at the Equitable Center , New York; and El Cap de Barcelona (1992) in Barcelona. In 1994, Lichtenstein created

6816-483: The later addition of two stories to accommodate future growth. More than 1,000 students, faculty, and Library staff combined efforts to move over 150,000 books, furnishings, and equipment. Harold F. Wells served 29 years as Library Director. Upon Mr. Wells's retirement, the University appointed Harold B. Schleifer as Acting Director in 1983, Director in 1985, and became the first library Dean until his retirement in December 2008. Harold Schliefer campaigned heavily to create

6912-473: The library pilot re-opening ended on May 21, 2021. The library ended scheduled appointments on August 12, 2021, but continued with indoor mask restrictions as mandated by Los Angeles County. To encourage masking for the Fall 2021 semester, the library created a #MaskUpMonday campaign that got a lot of attention with its positive message and cute mascot. The Library reopened its computer lab to 24-hour operation for 6 days

7008-536: The muse for his Nudes series including the 1994 "Nudes with Beach Ball". She was 22 and he was 68. The affair lasted until 1994 and was over when Wexler went to England with future husband Andy Partridge of XTC . According to Wexler, Lichtenstein and his wife Dorothy had an understanding and they both had significant others in addition to their marriage. On September 29, 1997, Lichtenstein died of pneumonia at New York University Medical Center , where he had been hospitalized for several weeks, at age 73. Lichtenstein

7104-551: The original acquires a totally different texture. It isn't thick or thin brushstrokes, it's dots and flat colours and unyielding lines." Eddie Campbell blogged that "Lichtenstein took a tiny picture, smaller than the palm of the hand, printed in four color inks on newsprint and blew it up to the conventional size at which 'art' is made and exhibited and finished it in paint on canvas." With regard to Lichtenstein, Bill Griffith once said, "There's high art and there's low art. And then there's high art that can take low art, bring it into

7200-452: The original creators of his comic works was a reflection on the decision by National Periodical Publications , the predecessor of DC Comics , to omit any credit for their writers and artists: Besides embodying the cultural prejudice against comic books as vehicles of art, examples like Lichtenstein's appropriation of the vocabulary of comics highlight the importance of taking publication format in consideration when defining comics, as well as

7296-717: The photographers' copyright. In 2013, the foundation donated the Shunk-Kender trove to five institutions – Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art in Washington; the Centre Pompidou in Paris; and the Tate in London – that will allow each museum access to the others' share. Since the 1950s Lichtenstein's work has been exhibited in New York and elsewhere with Leo Castelli at his gallery and at Castelli Graphics as well as with Ileana Sonnabend in her gallery in Paris, and at

7392-450: The political economy implied by specific types of historical publications, in this case the American mainstream comic book. To what extent was National Periodical Publications (later DC) responsible for the rejection of the roles of Kanigher and Novick as artists in their own right by not granting them full authorial credit on the publication itself?" Furthermore, Campbell notes that there was

7488-483: The possibility of a stronger earthquake in the future. The Chino Hills earthquake was caused by oblique-slip faulting, with components of both thrust and sinistral strike-slip displacement. Preliminary reports cited the Whittier Fault as the active cause, but the quake was later determined to have been generated by the " Yorba Linda trend ," as identified by Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson. Its epicenter

7584-645: The public. Located on the 1st floor, the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library houses unique and rare books and periodicals collections, memorabilia, photographs on W.K. Kellogg, Arabian horses, and Cal Poly Pomona. In 2013, the Huntley Gallery opened, named after Don Huntley, alumnus and benefactor of Cal Poly Pomona; the gallery is the permanent home for the Don Huntley Western Art Collection. The gallery features artwork from Cal Poly Pomona faculty, students, and staff each semester. The installation of

7680-623: The relationship between fine art, advertising, and consumerism. Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol were both used in U2 's 1997, 1998 PopMart Tour and in an exhibition in 2007 at the British National Portrait Gallery . Among many other works of art lost in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, a painting from Lichtenstein's The Entablature Series was destroyed in the subsequent fire. In 1964, Lichtenstein became

7776-452: The result of Lichtenstein's simplification that uses a Ben-Day dots background is a representation of the mechanical/industrial color printing reproduction. Lichtenstein's painting Torpedo ... Los! (1963) sold at Christie's for $ 5.5 million in 1989, a record sum at the time, making him one of only three living artists to have attracted such huge sums. In 2005, In the Car was sold for

7872-534: The scene. During a trip to Los Angeles in 1978, Lichtenstein was fascinated by lawyer Robert Rifkind's collection of German Expressionist prints and illustrated books. He began to produce works that borrowed stylistic elements found in Expressionist paintings. The White Tree (1980) evokes lyric Der Blaue Reiter landscapes, while Dr. Waldmann (1980) recalls Otto Dix 's Dr. Mayer-Hermann (1926). Small colored-pencil drawings were used as templates for woodcuts,

7968-631: The start of construction of the new 4th and 5th floors of the University Library addition for $ 7.4 million. Featuring advanced computer technology and serving a Cal Poly Pomona campus community of nearly 20,000, the Library building now has 205,000 square feet and seating for approximately 2,600 students. The Library's collection currently has over 1,000,000 microforms, 500,000 books; 58,000 technical reports; 10,000 maps; and 3,500 software packages. As part of "Partners in Progress," Cal Poly Pomona's 50th-anniversary capital campaign established an endowment fund for

8064-519: The summer of 1956. That same year, to support an increasing student population and its expanded academic curriculum, the library changed the book call numbers from the Dewey Decimal system, commonly used by smaller libraries, to the Library of Congress classification, used by larger libraries. In 1959, it was soon evident that the Library needed its own facility, and in 1959 the first Cal Poly Pomona Campus Library building opened. Mr. Wells again directed

8160-525: The test for or against any attorney candidates. Approximately 100 minor aftershocks and one presumed foreshock were reported within two days after the earthquake, 27 of which occurred within an hour after the earthquake. Four aftershocks of at least magnitude 3.0 were reported—the first, nine minutes following the initial earthquake, was the largest at magnitude 3.8; and two others, occurring over two hours later, were recorded at magnitude 3.6. Twenty-eight aftershocks of at least 2.0 were reported. There

8256-523: The third to the sixth floor for two days to reshelve all the fallen books. In some aisles, “hundreds of fallen books created impassable piles nearly two feet high." Harold Schliefer retired as the Library Dean in 2008, Dr. Gilbert (Gil) Brum took over as the Interim Library Dean until the appointment of Dr. Rui (Ray) Wang as the Library Dean. In 2012, the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library opened to

8352-432: The transfer of the collection, then numbering 16,584 volumes. Within five years, the volume count reached 63,138, and three years later, once again outgrowing the existing facility, the Library completed plans for a new building. By the winter of 1968, the new $ 4.2 million Cal Poly Pomona Library building was ready for occupancy. The campus designed a four-story structure (with floors numbered ground through 3rd) to allow for

8448-552: Was appropriated from the lead story in DC Comics ' Secret Hearts No. 83, drawn by Tony Abruzzo . ( Drowning Girl now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art, New York . ) Drowning Girl also features thick outlines, bold colors and Ben-Day dots, as if created by photographic reproduction. Of his own work, Lichtenstein would say that the Abstract Expressionists "put things down on the canvas and responded to what they had done, to

8544-424: Was at times difficult to be criticized, Lichtenstein said, "I don't doubt when I'm actually painting, it's the criticism that makes you wonder, it does." Lichtenstein's celebrated image Whaam! (1963) depicts a fighter aircraft firing a rocket into an enemy plane, with a red-and-yellow explosion. The cartoon style is heightened by the use of the onomatopoeic lettering "Whaam!" and the boxed caption "I pressed

8640-511: Was harmed. A gap was reported on California State Route 91 near Anaheim Hills, c. 7 miles (11 km) southwest of the epicenter, but the California Department of Transportation concluded that the gap did not pose a danger. A minor landslide near the freeway caused some traffic congestion, but structural damage was reported. California Department of Transportation replaced an expansion joint on an Interstate 5 truck overpass at

8736-501: Was heavily influenced by Allan Kaprow , who was also a teacher at the university. This environment helped reignite Lichtenstein's interest in Proto-pop imagery. In 1961, he began his first pop paintings using cartoon images and techniques derived from the appearance of commercial printing. This phase would continue to 1965, and included the use of advertising imagery suggesting consumerism and homemaking. Lichtenstein's first work to feature

8832-642: Was interested in anything I could use as a subject that was emotionally strong – usually love, war, or something that was highly charged and emotional subject matter to be opposite to the removed and deliberate painting techniques". It was at this time that Lichtenstein began to find fame not just in America but worldwide. He moved back to New York to be at the center of the art scene and resigned from Rutgers University in 1964 to concentrate on his painting. Lichtenstein used oil and Magna (early acrylic) paint in his best known works, such as Drowning Girl (1963), which

8928-433: Was speculation that the Chino Hills earthquake may have been a foreshock to a larger earthquake. The Southern California Seismic Network 's Aftershock Probability Report , produced minutes after the event, stated that "Most likely, the recent mainshock will be the largest in the sequence. However, there is a small chance, c. 5–10%, of an earthquake equal to or larger than this mainshock in the next 7 days." Geologists at

9024-415: Was speculation that the wane in seismic activity was a precursor to a possible larger event. The Chino Hills earthquake caused no deaths or significant damage due to the physical location of its epicenter. Most of the infrastructure in the Chino Hills area is relatively new and well suited to withstand a large quake. Unlike previous earthquakes in the region—such as the 1994 Northridge earthquake and

9120-574: Was survived by his second wife, Dorothy Herzka , and by his sons, David and Mitchell , from his first marriage. Pop art continues to influence the 21st century. Pop Art from the Collection features a wide range selection of screenprints by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as an assortment of Warhol's Polaroid photographs known as the leading figures of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Warhol and Lichtenstein are celebrated for exploring

9216-412: Was within 3 miles (4.8 km) of Chino Hills and its hypocenter was c. 15.5 kilometers (9.6 mi) deep. Initial estimations of the moderate main shock reported it as magnitude 5.8 , but this was later revised to magnitude 5.4. The main shock was reportedly felt as far south as San Diego, and Tijuana, Mexico , and as far east as Las Vegas , Nevada. It was the strongest earthquake to occur in

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