On loan to Duane Morris, LLP from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Roy Lichtenstein’s Brushstroke Group was brought to United Plaza courtesy of Duane Morris LLP, one of the city’s largest law firms, which occupies the adjacent building. In an unusual arrangement, the sculpture is on loan to Duane Morris from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. The Philadelphia Museum
of Art and the Fairmount Park Art Association worked with the law firm and the Foundation to bring the sculpture to the city. Roy Lichtenstein was a pioneering pop artist whose work was influenced by popular advertising and comic book images. The sculpture rises 29 feet high, and it is constructed of half-inch aluminum plate finished with a special durable paint used in the airline industry. The Brushstroke Group is an exuberant addition to Philadelphia’s “museum without walls” and joins center city’s other spirited
pop-art icons – Robert Indiana’s LOVE and Claus Oldenburg’s Clothespin.