“By stressing the artificiality of the comic-strip derived landscape, Lichtenstein proposed a new form of landscape painting. The predetermined fiction of the comic strip enabled him to present the illusionistic image of the landscape in terms that confirm the fictive reality of the picture plane."
Diane Waldman quoted in: Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Roy Lichtenstein, 1994, p. 131

Milton Avery, Dunes and Sea II, 1960, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Art © 2025 Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.