Untitled [bull skull]

1968

Married: Dorothy Lichtenstein

1968

Karl Ströher acquires major works

The Darmstadt entrepreneur Karl Ströher acquired several major works by Lichtenstein: “Nurse” (1964), “Compositions I” (1964), “We Rose Up Slowly” (1964) and “Yellow and Green Brushstrokes” (1966).

27 June 1968 – 6 October 1968

Exhibition: 4. documenta

1969

First retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum

In 1969 the Guggenheim Museum held Lichtenstein’s first retrospective there, organised by Diane Waldman.

1970

A house and studio in Southampton

In the late 1960s the couple rented a house in Southampton that Larry Rivers had bought around the corner from his own, and in 1970 Lichtenstein bought a 1910 carriage house facing the ocean on Long Island. He built a studio there, spent the rest of the 1970s in relative seclusion, and split his time between Manhattan and Southampton until his death.