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'''''Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But...''''' (sometimes '''''Oh, Jeff''''') is a 1964 oil and [[magna (paint)|magna]] on canvas painting by [[Roy Lichtenstein]]. Like many of Lichtenstein's works its title comes from the [[speech balloon]] in the painting.
Measuring 121.9 cm × 121.9 cm (48 in × 48 in), ''Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But...'' is among the most famous of his early romance comic derivative works from the period when he was adapting cartoons and advertisments into his style via [[Ben-Day dots]]. The work is said to depict the classic romance-comic story line of temporary adversity.<ref>{{cite book|title=Art History|author=Stokstad, Marilyn|isbn=0-8109-1960-5|p=1129|chapter=Art in the United States And Europe since World War II|quote=''Oh, Jeff'', for example, compresses into a single frame the generic romance-comic story line, in which two people fall in love, face some sort of crisis, or "but," that temporarily threatens their relationship, and then live happily ever after.|publisher=[[Prentice Hall, Inc.]] and [[Harry N. Abrams, Inc.]]}}</ref> Lichtenstein's sketch for this was done in graphite and colored pencils on paper in a 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (12.1 x 12.1 cm) scale.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://image-duplicator.com/sat/sat_study_details.php?study_id=30014|title=Drawing for Oh Jeff...I Love You Too...But|accessdate=2012-05-14|publisher=Lichtenstein Foundation}}</ref>
In the early 1960s, Lichtenstein produced several "fantasy drama" paintings of women in love affairs with domineering men causing women to be miserable, such as ''[[Drowning Girl]]'', ''Hopeless'' and ''In the Car''. These works served as prelude to 1964 paintings of innocent "girls next door" in a variety of tenuous emotional states.<ref>{{cite book|title= Roy Lichtenstein|author=Waldman, Diane|page=113|date=1993|publisher=[[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]]|isbn=0-89207-108-7}}</ref> Using only a single frame from its source, ''Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But...'''s graphics are quite indicative of frustration, but the text in the speech balloon augment the romantic context and the emotional discord.<ref>{{cite book|title=Roy Lichtenstein|publisher=[[Praeger Publishers]]|editor=Coplans, John|chapter=|date=1972|page=16|quote=...the inclusion of the encapsulated legend "Oh, Jeff, I love you too, but..." immediately throws the image into a romantic context of unrequited passion.}}</ref>
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