World's Fair mural 1964

Roy Lichtenstein made this enormous mural with paint on board sometime during his lifetime, and it now lives here with us. It’s such a Roy Lichtenstein, isn’t it? A red-haired woman, all bright colors and bold outlines. I bet he was thinking about those old comics when he made it. You know, the ones with the big, simple shapes and the Ben-Day dots. It’s almost like he was trying to make a painting that looked like it was printed on a giant printing press. Look at the way he painted the woman’s hair, those big, swirling shapes, each strand carefully outlined. And her hands—they’re almost like they’re floating in front of her face. All those little details, they add up to something bigger. And let's not forget that green frame—it’s like he’s inviting us to step into his world, a world where everything is bright, bold, and just a little bit unreal. Sort of like stepping into a comic book, or maybe into one of his other paintings.