Editing Roy Lichtenstein (section)

== Early years ==
Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, into an [[upper middle class]] [[German-Jewish]] family in New York City.<ref name="rlf-chronology">{{cite web|url=http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/lfchron1.htm |title=The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation – Chronology |access-date=November 12, 2007 |first=Clare |last=Bell |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606071341/http://lichtensteinfoundation.org/lfchron1.htm |archive-date=June 6, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theartstory.org/artist-lichtenstein-roy.htm|title=Roy Lichtenstein Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works|work=The Art Story}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/99986/why-pop-art-is-jewish|title=Roy Lichtenstein at the Art Institute of Chicago: Pop Art as an Affront to WASPy Decorum|work=Tablet Magazine|date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> His father, Milton, was a real estate broker, and his mother, Beatrice (née Werner), a homemaker.<ref name="Pop Art Icon Lichtenstein Dies">Christopher Knight (September 30, 1997), [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-30-mn-37730-story.html Pop Art Icon Lichtenstein Dies] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref> Lichtenstein was raised on New York City's [[Upper West Side]] and attended public school until he was 12. Lichtenstein then attended New York's [[Dwight School]], graduating in 1940. He first became interested in art and design as a hobby, through school.<ref name="rlf-Hendrickson">{{harvnb|Hendrickson|1988|p=94}}</ref> Lichtenstein was an avid jazz fan, often attending concerts at the [[Apollo Theater]] in [[Harlem]].<ref name="rlf-Hendrickson" /> He frequently drew portraits of the musicians playing their instruments.<ref name="rlf-Hendrickson" /> In 1939, his last year of high school, Lichtenstein enrolled in summer classes at the [[Art Students League of New York]], where he worked under the tutelage of [[Reginald Marsh (artist)|Reginald Marsh]].<ref name="rlf-Coplans30">{{harvnb|Coplans|1972 |p = 30 }}</ref>