Becoming Roy Lichtenstein: The Ohio Years

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Join art historian Avis Berman, author of Becoming Roy Lichtenstein: The Path to Pop, as she traces Lichtenstein’s aesthetic development through his roots in Ohio, which include his education at The Ohio State University and his later stint there as a teacher along with his eventual move to Cleveland where he struggled to find his own style against heavy odds. Berman will discuss Lichtenstein's transformation from obscurity into an iconic Pop artist who redefined American art in the 1960s and explain how his path to Pop was deeply influenced by the personalities and experiences of his life in Ohio. This event is free with registration and co-sponsored by The Ohio State University's Office of Academic Affairs. Register About the Speaker An independent writer and art historian, Avis Berman has written on painting, sculpture, photography, design, and museum history. She is the author of Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art; James McNeill Whistler; and Edward Hopper’s New York; and co-author and editor of Katharine Kuh’s memoir My Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator. Roy Lichtenstein: The Impossible Collection was published in May 2019. Her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, New York Review of Books, ARTnews, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, Antiques, Architectural Digest, and Art & Antiques, and she has contributed essays to encyclopedias, anthologies, and museum catalogues on the Armory Show, Roy Lichtenstein, John Sloan, Edward Hopper, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Andy Warhol Museum, American folk art, Ellsworth Kelly, Elie Nadelman, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and James McNeill Whistler. From 2011–2014 Berman organized and oversaw the first museum survey of William Glackens’s work in nearly fifty years, which traveled to three museums. Berman…