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Catalogue entry
RLCR 1482 (RL 1747)
Room in Aspen
1967
Title Source
RLFMedia
Tape, acrylic, house paint on walls and fixturesDimensions
Nok!! Nok!! Door: 83 1/2 x 32 x 3 1/2 in. (212.1 x 81.3 x 8.9 cm)Inscriptions
Neither signed nor datedKeyword
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Provenance
Collection De Wain Valentine, 1967 (Nok!! Nok!! door only) [owner deceased February 2022]
Exhibitions
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, Pop Art, Minimal Art, Etc.: Artists in Residence in Aspen, 1965–1970, December 11, 1986–February 8, 1987. (Nok!! Nok!! Door only).
Morgan Library and Museum, New York, Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968, September 24, 2010–January 2, 2011 (Nok!! Nok!! Door only) (Dervaux 2010b, fig. 27 n.p. facing p. 65 b/w ill. [with artist], figs 29–32 pp. 72–73 b/w ills. [in situ], fig. 34 p. 75 b/w ill. [detail], fig. 77 p. 191 b/w ill. [in situ], no. 60 p. 193 b/w ill. ). Traveled to: Albertina, Vienna, January 27–May 15, 2011 (as Roy Lichtenstein: Black & White, 1961–1968) (Dervaux 2011b, fig. 27 n.p. facing p. 69 b/w ill. [with artist], figs 29–32 pp. 68–69 b/w ills. [in situ], fig. 34 p. 71 b/w ill. [detail], fig. 77 p. 195 b/w ill. [in situ], no. 60 p. 197 b/w ill. ).
Literature
"Painting as a Room." Aspen Illustrated News, August 24, 1967, p. 24 b/w ill. (in situ).
Bader, Graham. Hall of Mirrors: Roy Lichtenstein and the Face of Painting in the 1960s. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010, no. 4.13 p. 163 b/w ill. (in situ).
Gagosian Gallery, New York, and Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. Roy Lichtenstein: Greene Street Mural. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2015. Exhibition catalogue (2015 New York Gagosian), fig. 6 n.p. facing p. 149 b/w ill., figs. 7–9 p. 149 b/w ill. (in situ), [not exhibited].
Entry Updated November 28, 2023
Sponsored by the Aspen Center for Contemporary Arts' summer residency program, six artists-in-residence opened their studios at the historic Brand Building in Aspen for Culture-In, a four-day schedule of events from August 17–20, 1967, as a gift to the city. Lichtenstein taped a cartoon-style interior in a room, with the added effects of onomatopoeia.
When the building was scheduled for demolition later that year, De Wain Valentine recuperated the Nok!! Nok!! Door with Lichtenstein's permission. The only existing RL studio card refers to this door alone. The SLAM!! door, the radiator, the outlet and the light switch are no longer extant.
Participating artists included: Allan D’Arcangelo, De Wain Valentine, Robert Morris, Lichtenstein, Les Levine and Claes Oldenburg.