Two Indians (Two Indians With Bird), 1953

The Lichtenstein Foundation touches on the imagery in Two Indians by saying that, “In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Lichtenstein began working in series and his iconography was drawn from printed images […] he then took an ironic look at nineteenth-century American genre paintings he saw in history books, creating Cubist interpretations of cowboys and Indians spiked with a faux-primitive whimsy.”