Roy Lichtenstein's 3-D Sculpture.

• Position: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. - Brief Article

Although best known as a painter, American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein also devoted his artistic career to creating sculptural, three-dimensional objects. An exhibition of the artist's sculpture and related drawings, models, and sketchbooks includes 100 sculptures and three-dimensional maquettes or models, the earliest of which are figural carvings and assemblages dating from the mid 1940s and 1950s. The latest is his last personally finished sculpture--the monumental "House II," previously seen only at the Venice Biennale in 1997.

Various other large sculptures range from a 32-foot-high "Brushstroke Group" of 1988 to the actual 1977 BMW 320i rally car--the artist-decorated "Lichtenstein Art Car"--which competed in the 1977 Le Mans 24-hour race, to the 12-foot-high "Brushstroke Nude" (1993), a towering, colorfully painted, cast aluminum piece.

As one of the pioneers of so-called Pop Art in the 1960s, Lichtenstein shocked the art world with the new visual language of his paintings and sculptures. Merging...