Reflections on Crash
Date1990
Artist
Roy Lichtenstein
(American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, 1923–1997)
MediumLithograph, screen print and relief in colors, with metalized PVC collage with embossing
Dimensionscomposition: 53 × 69 in. (134.6 × 175.3 cm)
sheet: 59 1/4 × 75 in. (150.5 × 190.5 cm)
sheet: 59 1/4 × 75 in. (150.5 × 190.5 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1991
Object number1991-18
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextIn the Reflections series, Lichtenstein returned to comic book images for the first time since the 1960s. In Reflections on Crash, we see the Native American war pilot Johnny Cloud—hero of Irv Novick's All-American Men of War comic series—glancing back through an airplane cockpit in response to the loud explosion of enemy fire, denoted by the word "CRASH." The oversized Ben-Day dots recall Lichtenstein's own art of the 1960s, while the stylized "reflections" reference his Mirror Paintings, a series he began in 1969.
