Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné

The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the long-awaited, comprehensive online publication, Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné (RLCR). A massive scholarly undertaking, all art historians, museum and art-world professionals, Lichtenstein enthusiasts and interested readers are invited to explore more than 5,500 recognized works by Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) in all media in public and private collections worldwide. The RLCR is freely available on the Foundation’s recently released catalogue website.

This catalogue significantly expands upon and corrects previous research. It provides high-quality illustrations and a comprehensive account of all known paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages, prints, commissions and other artworks by the artist. Numerous previously undocumented or undiscovered works have been added to the corpus.

The RLCR is born-digital, with linked connections between artworks, exhibitions, literature, archival materials, a chronology and more. The website features artworks in relative sizes, connects them—when known—to the studio in which they were created and explores Lichtenstein’s various source materials. Readers can study the artist’s sketchbooks page-by-page. An interactive tool allows for bookmarking and annotating artworks.

Under the leadership of Dr. Jack Cowart, Senior Editor, Dr. Andrea Theil, Director of the Roy Lichtenstein Catalogue Raisonné, and Ruth Fine, Board Chair and distinguished art historian long familiar with Lichtenstein, the RLCR team and Foundation staff have worked for decades to create this resource. We hope this dynamic publication will inspire new advancements.

Research into unlocated works is ongoing. We invite collectors, museums, galleries and other institutions who own, or have owned, a currently unlocated work to fill out the catalogue raisonné form. All submissions are held in the strictest confidence.

About the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
Established in 1999, the Foundation has the primary mission of facilitating public access to the work of Roy Lichtenstein and contemporary art, in general. Its activities have expanded to include rescuing and organizing the enormous and historically consequential Shunk-Kender and Harry Shunk Photography Collections and donating them to a consortium of five international museums/research centers; supporting the Aspen Institute National Study of Artist-Endowed Foundations; providing expertise to Lichtenstein exhibitions; supporting numerous outreach and research topics, including artists’ materials and postwar art and art history; building a Study Collection of early Lichtenstein and later generative sketches, models, maquettes and artifacts; functioning as an image and information database for a broad range of art, art history and oral histories; and working with museums to enable them to acquire notable Lichtenstein artworks from the Foundation’s collection and the collections of others.