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Study for Aviation 1967 20th Century 22 in. x 26 in. (55.88 cm x 66.04 cm) Roy Lichtenstein (Manhattan, New York, 1923 - 1997) Object Type: Drawing Medium and Support: pencil, crayon, collage on paper Credit Line: Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection: Purchase, Tabriz Fund and Museum Purchase Plan of the NEA. 1976.019 Accession Number: 1976.019 Comments: Study for Aviation is a document of the artist's working procedures, in which he has exposed his visual processes, the tentative cross-hatchings and the rearranging of elements to achieve an anonymous decorative solution. Study for Aviation was never reworked into a finished canvas, but his intentions would appear to mimic the movement of the propeller, even if developed for a more finished canvas. The collisions of lines and strokes are appropriate for the whirl and vibrancy of traditional air travel. In this case the viewer has continuous evidence of the artist's hand, which would inevitably be eradicated in the final version, through impersonal ruler-and-compass draftsmanship, Ben Day color screens and clear colors showing no evidence of brushwork.

Keywords:

• drawing
• American
• Abstraction
• pencil

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• Drawing: Abstraction
• Masterworks: Drawing
• Twentieth Century American Drawings

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• Artist:North American:American
• Class:Fine Arts:drawing
• Class:Fine Arts:drawing:pencil
• Style:Abstraction

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