Editing Roy Lichtenstein (section)

== Personal life ==
In 1949, Lichtenstein married Isabel Wilson, who previously had been married to Ohio artist [[Michael Sarisky]].<ref name="rlf-Alloway">{{harvnb|Alloway|1983 | p= 113}}</ref> However, the brutal upstate winters took a toll on Lichtenstein and his wife,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3612858/Whaam-Suddenly-Roy-was-the-darling-of-the-art-world.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3612858/Whaam-Suddenly-Roy-was-the-darling-of-the-art-world.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Whaam! Suddenly Roy was the darling of the art world|last=Gayford|first=Martin|date=February 25, 2004|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|access-date=November 12, 2007}}{{cbignore}}</ref> after he began teaching at the [[State University of New York at Oswego]] in 1958. The couple sold the family home in [[Highland Park, New Jersey]], in 1963<ref>Alastair Sooke (February 18, 2013), [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9857640/Roy-Lichtensteins-lover-He-wanted-to-make-women-cry.html Roy Lichtenstein's lover: "He wanted to make women cry"] ''[[Daily Telegraph]]''.</ref> and divorced in 1965.

Lichtenstein married his second wife, [[Dorothy Lichtenstein|Dorothy Herzka]], (1939–2024), in 1968.<ref name="rlf-Alloway114">{{harvnb|Alloway | 1983 | pp = 114}}</ref> In the late 1960s, they rented a house in [[Southampton, New York]] that [[Larry Rivers]] had bought around the corner from his own house.<ref name="Studios by the Sea">[[Bob Colacello]] (January 2000), [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2000/01/studios-by-the-sea-200001 Studios by the Sea] ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]''.</ref> Three years later, they bought a 1910 carriage house facing the ocean on Gin Lane.<ref name="Studios by the Sea" /> From 1970 until his death, Lichtenstein split his time between Manhattan and Southampton.<ref name="NYT-1997-02-02">{{cite news
|newspaper=The New York Times
|title=Actor Finds That His Roles Walk on the Darker Side of Life
|first=Jane
|last=Julianelli
|date=February 2, 1997
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/02/nyregion/actor-finds-that-his-roles-walk-on-the-darker-side-of-life.html
}}</ref> He also had a home on [[Captiva Island]].<ref>Jackie Cooperman (May 18, 2010), [http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/dispatch-captiva-island-florida/ Dispatch: Captiva Island, Florida] ''[[T: The New York Times Style Magazine]]''.</ref>

In 1991, Lichtenstein began an affair with singer [[Erica Wexler]] who became the muse for his Nudes series including the 1994 "[[Nudes with Beach Ball]]". She was 22 and he was 68.<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 27, 2013|title='Roy didn't want a woman. He liked them young and juicy'|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/roy-didn-t-want-a-woman-he-liked-them-young-and-juicy-lichtenstein-s-secret-lover-on-being-the-muse-behind-his-nudes-8499255.html|access-date=November 19, 2021|website=www.standard.co.uk|language=en}}</ref> The affair lasted until 1994 and was over when Wexler went to England with future husband [[Andy Partridge]] of [[XTC]]. According to Wexler, Lichtenstein and his wife Dorothy had an understanding and they both had significant others in addition to their marriage.

On September 29, 1997, Lichtenstein died of [[pneumonia]]<ref name="Great-20th-Century-Artists" /> at [[NYU Langone Medical Center|New York University Medical Center]], where he had been hospitalized for several weeks, at age 73.<ref name="Pop Art Icon Lichtenstein Dies" /> Lichtenstein was survived by his second wife, [[Dorothy Lichtenstein|Dorothy Herzka]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-20/lichtenstein-widow-recalls-macro-diet-love-for-jazz.html|title=Lichtenstein Widow Recalls Macro Diet, Love for Jazz|last=Nayeri|first=Farah|date=February 20, 2013|publisher=[[Bloomberg News]]}}</ref> and by his sons, David and [[Mitchell Lichtenstein|Mitchell]], from his first marriage.