10014 New York, New York
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.