James Rosenquist
B. 1933 -
Born in 1933 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, James Rosenquist studied art
at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as a teenager and at the University of
Minnesota between 1952 and 1954, painting billboards during the summers. In 1955
he moved to New York to study at the Art Students League. He left the school
after one year, and in 1957 returned to life as a commercial artist, painting
billboards in Times Square and across the city. By 1960, he had quit painting
billboards and rented a small studio space in Manhattan where his neighbors
included artists Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, and Jack Youngerman. In 1962,
he had his first solo exhibition at the Green Gallery in New York, and afterward
was included in a number of groundbreaking group exhibitions that established
Pop art [more] as a movement. Rosenquist achieved international acclaim with his
room-scale painting, F-111 (1965). In addition to painting, he has produced a
vast array of prints, drawings and collages; his print Time Dust (1992) is
thought to be the largest print in the world, measuring seven by 35 feet. The
artist has received numerous honors; he was selected as the Art in America Young
Talent Painter in 1963, appointed to a six-year term on the Board of the
National Council on the Arts in 1978, and nominated as a member of the American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1987. Since his first early career
retrospectives in 1972 organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, he has been the subject of gallery and museum
exhibitions in the U.S. and internationally. He continues to produce large-scale
commissions, including the recent three-painting suite The Swimmer in the Econo-mist
(1997–98) for Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, and has a painting planned for the
ceiling of the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. From his early days as a billboard
painter to his recent masterful use of abstract painting techniques, Rosenquist
has demonstrated his interest in and mastery of color, line, and shape that
continues to dazzle audiences and influence younger generations of artists.
Dusting off Roses
1965
19 of 35, 23 by 35 inches
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