ROY LICHTENSTEIN: HIS ART, HIS LIFE AND HIS JEWISH ROOTS w/ CAROL SALUS

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  • Wednesday | July 30, 2025 to Monday | July 28, 2025
  • 10:30 am
  • Zoom
  • 215-887-8700

Mondays at 10:30 a.m. ~ ADULT EDUCATION hosted by Caryl Levin

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Monday, July 28, 10:30 a.m./

ROY LICHTENSTEIN: HIS ART, HIS LIFE AND HIS JEWISH ROOTS w/ CAROL SALUS

I knew Roy and he painted my portrait as a child.  I think it is the only portrait he ever painted. My family was friendly with Roy and his family, and I have funny stories about them. We will examine Roy’s iconic works, including his adaptations of Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse. Lichtenstein hoped for a two-state solution and his commissioned mural for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is dedicated to his wish for Israel.  The mural contains references to his own works as well as images from the Museum’s own collection. Roy created prints of the mural to raise money for the museum.

Carol Salus is a professor emerita in the division of art history at Kent State University.  She is co-editor of Out of Context: American Artists Abroad (Greenwood Press, 2004). Her writings appear in Art Bulletin, National American Biography, Jewish Art, Printmaking Today, Shofar, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Schatzkamer der Deutschen Sprache, Dichtung, und Geschichte, Analecta Husserliana, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Celestinesca, and others. She has twice been an invited speaker at the American Institute of Medical Education. She has been a speaker at Hebrew University (2006). She recently published a book, ‘Picasso and Celestina:  The Artist’s Vision of the Procuress’. Since retirement she has taught seniors through Case Western Reserve University and will be teaching seniors again through Brandeis University. She received her PhD from The Ohio State University.

In addition, Carol has spoken at numerous conferences including in Israel and Germany.  She was an invited speaker at the Association for Psychoanalytic Thought, Cincinnati, twice at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Society, and twice at the Creativity and Madness Conference, American Institute of Medical Education, Santa Fe.  Carol was twice a selected participant at faculty seminars, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  She graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University (BA), Syracuse University (MS), University of Cincinnati (MA), and The Ohio State University (PhD)