Tacoma, WA - This Tacoma Art Museum show features a virtually unknown group of paintings and works on paper by leading Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, inspired by his appreciation of Native American art.  These early works reflect Lichtenstein’s interests in European modernism (Picasso, Miro, and Klee) as well as Native American art.

American Indian Encounters features an extraordinary selection of virtually unknown works by Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997), one of the best-known American artists to emerge after 1960.  It will bring together over thirty paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures, including a rare sketchbook of American Indian design motifs, thereby juxtaposing two lesser-known periods of Lichtenstein's art-the Cubist abstractions based on 19th century American history paintings of Native American themes, and the "Amerindian" Pop-style works from 1979-1981.

Exhibit ends 4 September, 2006. Visit Tacoma Art Museum at : http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/