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Modernism is pleased to present a Memorial Exhibition celebrating the life and work of Mel RAMOS.

As a young artist in the early 1960s, Mel Ramos made portraits of figures he particularly admired. He painted Batman and Wonder Woman and other comic book characters, rendering them on canvas with brushwork he'd learned by studying Old Masters. Concurrently with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein—yet independently of both—Mel Ramos pioneered an entirely new vision of modern art popularly known as Pop.

Paintings, works on paper, and sculpture spanning Ramos’s entire career, from superheroes to …