In his late career, Roy Lichtenstein’s famed primary colors and comic book imagery gave way to subtler explorations of color, light and materials. However, his interest in reinterpreting the
work of celebrated artists remained. In a new indoor and outdoor exhibition, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota campus will showcase the legendary pop artist’s screen prints based on Monet’s world-famous paintings of water lilies and haystacks.

Roy Lichtenstein: Monet’s Garden Goes Pop! will be on view exclusively at Selby Gardens from February 14-June 27, 2021. Lichtenstein’s rarely seen Water Lilies with Reflections provides an unexpected homage to a staple of the public imagination. The series will be on view in the Museum of Botany & the Arts along with photographs of Lichtenstein at work and at home. The outdoor spaces at Selby Gardens will be transformed, through a Pop Art lens, into Monet’s famed gardens at Giverny.

“We are excited to give our gardens the Monet treatment, with an innovative pop art twist,”says Jennifer Rominiecki, president and CEO of Selby Gardens. “Our guests will immerse themselves in Lichtenstein’s interpretation of Monet for a dynamic experience in our galleries and gardens.”“Lichtenstein’s Water Lilies series is rarely seen, and yet it is a wonderful reflection of how his artistic viewpoint evolved in his late career,” said Dr. Carol Ockman, Curator-at-Large for Selby Gardens and Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art History Emerita at Williams College. 

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