Dorothy Lichtenstein

Dorothy Lichtenstein was an American philanthropist. She was the second wife of artist Roy Lichtenstein, from 1968 to his death, in 1997.

Life and career

Lichtenstein was born in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City, on October 26, 1939 to Mathilda Thelma Herzka and Lloyd Herzka, a municipal judge. She attended Beaver College. After studying art history there, Dorothy returned to New York City in the early to mid 1960s and became the director of the Paul Bianchini Gallery on 57th street. While at the Bianchini Gallery in the mid-1960s she met and eventually married Roy Lichtenstein in 1968.
After the death of her husband in 1997, Dorothy Lichtenstein became president of the newly founded Roy Lichtenstein Foundation from 1999 to 2024. She died at her home in Southampton, New York on July 4, 2024, at the age of 84.