James Rosenquist

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Born: 1933

Hometown: Grand Forks, ND

Lives and Works: Aripeka, FL

Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
University of Minnesota, Morris, MN, 1954
Minneapolis School of Art, Minneapolis, MN

James Rosenquist Bio

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Pop Art icon James Rosenquist exploded onto the scene in 1960 with his large-scale vivid paintings. Trained on billboard signs, Rosenquist abstracted familiar imagery from advertising and pop culture through adjustments in scale and irrational juxtapositions that owe a debt to Surrealism. Though fragmented and overlapping, his images of spaghetti, Marilyn Monroe, hairdryers, and detergent boxes created visual narratives of American culture, at times with a political message. His most iconic painting, room-sized F-111, is a powerful deconstruction of the American dream. Rosenquist influenced a whole generation of painters, including David Salle.

In addition to being widely exhibited throughout the world and completing several major commissions, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum organized a full-career retrospective of Rosenquist's work in 2003, and he received the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Acheivement in 1988.

James Rosenquist Permanent Collections

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Tate Modern, London, England