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Still Life with Silver Pitcher

Photo: Roger Schreiber

Still Life with Silver Pitcher

1972

Roy Lichtenstein

American, 1923 - 1997

Oil and Magna on canvas
51 x 60 in. (129.5 x 152.4cm)
Gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
2014.25.44
Provenance: [Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, Feb. 7, 1973
Photo: Roger Schreiber
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein, Feb. 24 - Mar.10, 1973. Advertisement in Arts Magazine, March 1973: reproduced p. 17.

Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: American Art Since 1960, Feb. 1 - Mar. 16, 1975. Text by Thomas Maytham, et al., Cat no. 23.

Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Seattle Show, May 9 - June 22, 1975. No cat. no., reproduced n.p.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum Pavillion, Seattle Center, Roy Lichtenstein, Jan. 22 - Mar. 7, 1976.

St. Louis, Missouri, the St. Louis Art Museum, Roy Lichtenstein 1970 -1980, May 7 - June 28, 1981 (Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, July 7 - Sept. 6, 1981; New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Sept. 22 - Nov. 29, 1981; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center, Dec. 16, 1981 - Feb. 7, 1982). Text by Jack Cowart. No cat. no., reproduced p. 47.

Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, American Art: A Portland Perspective, Nov. 28, 1984 - Jan. 20, 1985

New York, New York, Guggenheim Museum, Roy Lichtenstein, Sept. 23, 1993 - Jan. 15, 1994 (Los Angeles, California, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jan. 30 - Apr. 3, 1994; Montreal, Canada, Museum of Fine Arts, May 26 - Sept. 5, 1994; Munich, Germany, Haus der Kunst, Oct. 14, 1994 - Jan. 9, 1995; Hamburg, Germany, Deichtorhallen, Feb. 9 - Apr. 30, 1995; Brussels, Belgium, Les Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, June 2 - Sept. 3, 1995). Text by Dianne Waldman. No cat. no., p. 211, reproduced fig. 162, p. 209.

Basel, Switzerland, Foundation Beyeler, Roy Lichtenstein, May 24 - Sept. 27, 1998.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Mar. 4, 1999 - May 5, 1999. Text by Trevor Fairbrother. No cat. no., p. 37 reproduced pp. 186.

Rome, Italy, Chiostro del Bramante, Roy Lichtenstein: The Mirror and the Reflected Image, Dec. 20, 1999 - Apr. 2, 2000 (Milan, Italy, Padiglione Arte Contemporanea, Apr. 20 - June 25, 2000, did not travel to Wolfsburg, Germany, Kunstumseum Wolfsburg, Sept. 16, 2000 - Jan. 21, 2001).

New York, New York, Gagosian Gallery, Roy Lichtenstein - Still Lifes, May 8 - July 30, 2010.
Published References“Encyclopedia Universale.” Milan: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1974 (unconfirmed).

Duffy, Robert W. “Getting Lichtenstein Show on Road.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 19, 1981, reproduced p. 11.

Alloway, Lawrence. Roy Lichtenstein. New York: Abbeville Press, 1983, reproduced p. 77.

Hendrickson, Janis. Lichtenstein. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1988, reproduced p. 54.

Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed. A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2007, reproduced p. 20, fig. 3.

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