Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Peace through Chemistry: Art in Chemistry

Artist/Maker Roy Lichtenstein (United States, 1923-1997)

Date1970

Mediumscreen print

DimensionsSight: 23 7/8 x 14 1/4 in. (60.6 x 36.2 cm)
Sheet: 30 x 20 1/4 in. (76.2 x 51.4 cm)
Framed: 36 1/8 x 27 3/8 x 1 3/8 in. (91.8 x 69.5 x 3.5 cm)

ClassificationsVisual Works

Credit LineGift of Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch from Freedom Place Collection, Washington, D.C.

Terms

Object number94.0034.11

On View

Not on view

Collections

Art of North America

DescriptionArt in Chemistry is a variation of one half of a diptych from 1970 titled Peace Through Chemistry. Lichtenstein, who called this painting a "pseudo-mural," likened it to the social-political WPA murals from the 1930s. He began multi-panel, muralesque compositions of this type in 1966, intending them as a statement about heroic composition.