About the Author

Jack Cowart is the executive director at the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in New York. He was previously deputy director/chief Ccurator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1992-1999); head of Department of 20th Century Art at the National Gallery of Art (1983-1992). Dr. Cowart is a widely published and recognised authority on Roy Lichtenstein and Henri Matisse as well as on other American and European 20th-century modern and contemporary art and artists. The French Ministry of Culture and Communication awarded him a Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2001. Clare Bell is manager of exhibitions and reference at the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in New York. She was formerly a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and additionally served as deputy director and chief curator at the Museum of the City of New York. She has contributed to numerous periodicals including Art in America and Art on Paper as well as other exhibition catalogues on Lichtenstein and other artists. Avis Berman is in charge of the oral history program of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, and she has conducted more than 450 interviews on figures in the art world for museums, archives, estates, and foundations. She is the author of several books and her essays and reviews have appeared in newspapers, journals, anthologies, encyclopaedias, and exhibition catalogues.