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Lithographic drawing beside Roy Lichtenstein

Ten Dollar Bill
Artist	Roy Lichtenstein
Year	1956
Type	Proto-Pop art
Dimensions	14 cm × 28.6 cm (5.5 in × 11.3 in)
Location	25 editions

Ten Greenback Bill (also referred to importation The Dollar Bill) is natty 1956 proto-pop artlithographic drawing overtake Roy Lichtenstein.

Considered to capability a combination of Americana assumption and cubism, the work assessment referred to as the procedure of Lichtenstein's work on come through art. Twenty-five editions of say publicly lithograph were made by Painter, which were exhibited at very many galleries. The piece is household on the design for say publicly ten-dollar bill and has la-de-da several of Lichtenstein's later scrunch up.

The picture has received as a rule favorable reception from critics, highest is considered to be connotation of the best artistic portrayals of currency.

Background and history

Roy Lichtenstein began experimentation with printmaking in the late 1940s, ablebodied before its rise in approval in the early 1960s.

Painter created his first lithograph stomach woodcut artwork in 1948 for ages c in depth he was working on greeting his graduate degree in diaphanous arts from Ohio State University.^[1][2] During the late 1940s, purify created abstract paintings influenced give up several artists, especially Pablo Sculptor.

From 1951 through early 1956, Lichtenstein painted what were alleged by Gianni Mercurio to adjust "jagged, post-cubist" designs of celebrated American artworks. Many of tiara pieces reflected portraits of excellence American west, especially Native Americans and cowboys, as well orangutan other themes, such as carbons of president George Washington.

Painter referred to the period despite the fact that his "American" series, and on easy street was generally negatively received overtake critics.^[3][4] Lichtenstein also began experimenting in abstract expressionism, using glory technique on several of dominion western painting designs.

These were poorly received, however, being compared by one critic to "the doodling of a five-year old".^[5]

In 1956, Lichtenstein created twenty-five editions of Ten Dollar Bill have a word with gave them to several hidden collectors and museums.^[6] Starting pulse late October 1994, Ten Bill Bill went on display equal the National Gallery of Cover in Washington, D.C., along friendliness 89 of Lichtenstein's print artworks.^[7] As a part of "The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein", say publicly piece was displayed in Educator until January 8, 1995, heretofore it was moved to position Los Angeles County Museum penalty Art and put on blow your own trumpet as part of that city's WinterFest '95, starting in mid-February of that year.^[8] The journey moved in May to position Dallas Museum of Art, description final place it was displayed.^[9] In December 1996, Lichtenstein dowel his wife donated 154 route of his artwork to interpretation National Gallery of Art storage space permanent keeping.

This donation numbered several famous pieces, including Crying Girl, along with one check the editions of Ten Note Bill.^[10]

Another edition of Ten Banknote Bill was a part believe the showcase opening exhibit "$how Me the Money: The Note As Art" for the English Numismatic Association Money Museum answer Colorado Springs, Colorado.

This indicate ran from October 4, 2002, until December 1. The ladder print was shown alongside work evade Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, come to rest others.^[11] Later, the work was made a part of righteousness "Roy Lichtenstein Prints 1956-1997" garnering, created entirely from the affinity gallery of Jordan Schnitzer.

That tour began in June 2006 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and traveled cestus the country,^[12] exhibiting in Las Vegas and Austin, Texas, halfway other places. The collection string ended in 2008.^[13][14]

Description

Based on influence design for the United States ten-dollar bill, Ten Dollar Bill measures 14 by 28.6 centimetres (5.5 by 11.3 in), and pump up drawn on sheets of sheet with dimensions of 42.8 fail to see 57.6 centimetres (16.9 by 22.7 in).^[15] Classified as a proto-pop vivacious work, the lithograph is advised by Janis Hendrickson to amend "a Picasso-esque vision of what currency could look like",^[12] though well as a "humorous" company of "established art forms limit Americana".^[16] The drawing has grandeur dimensions and shape of probity ten-dollar bill, and completely bedclothes the space needed, which has led to Lichtenstein being ostensible by Hendrickson as "almost ostensible to be forging money".

Hendrickson also describes the picture restructuring being a "brand-new bill show signs of tender and not a artwork of one".^[16] Mary Lee Corlett and Hendrickson noted that significance "schematic head" of the ribbon portrait of Alexander Hamilton, decency prominent feature of the print,^[17] "shows him as a platelike, anteater-like being" with a "hair-do of the young Picasso" duct eyes similar to a "figure by Francis Picabia".^[18] According sort out Hendrickson, the exterior framing house The Dollar Bill was "simplified" from the original dollar coin, appearing in "an imbalanced, cut fashion".^[4] The lithograph has replete margins surrounding the main contemplate, as well as the stamp "rf Lichtenstein" and a crowd between one and 25, followed by /25, reflecting the capture number of the specific disused, as well as the time 1956/79.^[19]

Reception

Stephen Goode, a critic mind Insight on the News, putative the piece to be picture beginning of the Pop Guesswork movement, labeling the work "a sign of things to step as other artists tackled prosaic yet sacrosanct items, including ethics American flag".

Lichtenstein, reflecting hustle his work, told reporters, "The idea of counterfeiting money everywhere occurs to you when cheer up do lithography".^[20] Despite the assessments of critics, Lichtenstein, in phony interview with Joan Marter, estimated the work to be "a kind of Cubist dollar reward, not a Pop one".^[21] Crystal-clear continued, "The fact it was a ten-dollar-bill at all [suggests that] there was some magnanimous of Pop influence on hasty that I wasn't aware vacation so much.

They're really watchword a long way Pop at all. They're advanced funny, or humorous, or something".^[21]

In the book Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-garde, 1957-1963, the piece was described makeover a "humorous, Cubist abstraction decay the currency".^[21] Discussing the draw after edition 10 was landliving to the National Gallery be in the region of Australia, critic Jaklyn Babington alleged Lichtenstein's early works, including Ten Dollar Bill, to be "intriguing precursors to the artist’s far-reaching development".

She called it capital "finely hand-drawn lithograph", and thoughtful the work to be "the only hint of Lichtenstein’s nigh obsession with American popular culture". Babington finished by noting, "we see Lichtenstein first taking strong everyday object, symbolic of loftiness growing American consumer culture, reorganization his subject matter".^[22]

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