Accession Code: wu0028 Title: Sandwich and Soda Date completed: Medium: Prints Material: Screenprint Height (mm): 527 Width (mm): 628 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: None Location Name: Medical Teaching Centre Location Description: Corridor Location Floor: 0

© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS 2021

This print is part of a portfolio of 10 screenprints, published in an edition of 500 by Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut. These prints by leading American artists of the 1960s, demonstrate how appropriate the medium was for the hard edged style of post-painterly abstraction.

The prints were commissioned by Sam Wagstaff, Curator of the Wadsworth Athenaeum. He said that he wanted people 'to get as big a hunk of the current aesthetic as they could as cheaply as possible'. Wagstaff asked each artist to provide a design; a proof was returned to them for approval and/or adjustment.

Lichtenstein's print was transposed from a monochrome drawing and was printed on acetate at Wagstaff's suggestion.