Modern Head, a steel sculpture by Roy Lichtenstein, was installed today August 27, 2008, outside the Smithsonian American Art Museum, at the corner of F and Ninth Streets, NW, in Washington, D.C. The piece follows the artist’s recurring theme of human figures resembling machines.

According to Patsy Tompkins from the James Goodman Gallery, the sculpture was most recently seen at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, FL, and was previously installed in Battery Park City, one block from the World Trade Center in New York, where it survived the September 11, 2001, attacks. Ms. Tomkins also said the sculpture received a new paint job, an electric blue that is less shiny than it was as seen in the Fairchild installation.