Representative work by James Rosenquist
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James Rosenquist

1933–2017 · American · Based in New York and Aripeka, Florida, USA (d. 2017)

  • Minneapolis School of Art
  • Art Students League of New York
  • Monumental Pop Painting
  • Billboard Montage

James Rosenquist brought the scale and fragmentary logic of billboard painting into Pop Art. Trained as a commercial sign painter, he assembled cropped consumer products, political figures and ordinary objects into huge canvases whose discontinuous images mimic the visual overload of mass media.

Painting; printmaking; collage

Gallery Representation

Major Works

  • 1960–61/1964President Elect
  • 1964–65F-111
  • 1961I Love You with My Ford
  • 1963Nomad
  • 1961Hey! Let’s Go for a Ride
  • 1981House of Fire
  • 1992Time Dust
  • 1997–98The Swimmer in the Econo-mist
  • 1960–61Zone
  • 1968–69Horse Blinders

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Interviews & Writing

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