While stationed in Paris after the war ended, he took classes and visited art museums. The World War II draft interrupted his junior year, and by 1944 he was serving with an engineer battalion in Europe.

The summer after graduating from high school, Lichtenstein studied painting at the Art Students League before enrolling at Ohio State University in 1940 to study art, art history and education. Art caught his interest early, and at 13 he started watercolor classes at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later Parsons School of Design). As a young child, he explored the museums and other wonders the city offered. 27, 1923, in New York City, and grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Other participants at the ceremony were Jack Cowart, executive director, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Anne Helmreich, director of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, and Rachel Rossin, contemporary artist.

I think he would have really loved it,” she said, referring to the new stamps. “I think it's an honor and more people will find out about Roy. It gets mail to everywhere, not just in this country, but around the world, said Dorothy Lichtenstein, the artist’s widow, and president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. “I have always been a fan of the Post Office. “Altogether, he created more than 5,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, murals and other objects that continue to be celebrated for their wit and invention,” he said. “Roy Lichtenstein certainly deserves this recognition because of the remarkable creativity and innovation he demonstrated throughout his career.” “The Postal Service uses its stamp program to raise awareness and celebrate the people who represent the very best of our nation,” said Thomas Marshall, general counsel and executive vice president of the Postal Service, who served as the stamps’ dedicating official. News of the stamps is being shared with the hashtag #RoyLichtensteinStamps. The Forever stamps feature five of the artist’s bold, eye-catching creations and come in panes of 20. Postal Service today recognized the centennial of American artist Roy Lichtenstein’s birth with the dedication of new stamps in his honor at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Postal Service Honors Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop Art on New Forever Stamps

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