“I studied only with the abstract artists. They had commercial artists there teaching commercial work, I didn”
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James Rosenquist
James Albert Rosenquist was an American artist and one of the proponents of the pop art movement. Drawing from his background working in sign painting, Rosenquist's pieces often explored the role of advertising and consumer culture in art and society, utilizing techniques he learned making commercial art to depict popular cultural icons and mundane everyday objects. While his works have often been…
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culture · American painter (1933–2017) · painter · photographer · designer · sculptor · printmaker · visual artist · artist · also James Rosenquist, James Albert Rosenquist, Rosenquist
Born 29 November 1933 · Died 31 March 2017 · Q448845
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2026· 2 entries
Artnet news: James Rosenquist
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2025· 1 entry
Artnet news: James Rosenquist and Joseph Kosuth
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2024· 1 entry
Artnet: Undervalued Pop Legend James Rosenquist Is Having a Moment
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2023· 4 entries
Observer: Pop Art Pioneer James Rosenquist’s Vibrant Prints Are Headed for the Auction Block
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Barron's: James Rosenquist Show and Sale at Phillips Could Rekindle Interest in the Artist’s Brand of Pop
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Forbes: Monumental James Rosenquist Paintings Join Works By Alex Katz, Robert Mapplethorpe At Chef Daniel Boulud’s Restaurant Daniel
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insider.si.edu: James Rosenquist : pop art, politics, and history in the 1960s / Michael Lobel
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2017· 4 entries
Died 2017-03-31.
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After a long illness; he was 83 years old
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“Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.”
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“In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.”
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2013· 2 entries
Grand Forks Herald: N.D. native James Rosenquist's 17-by-46 foot, one-piece painting on display at North Dakota Museum of Art
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insider.si.edu: Oral history interview with James Rosenquist
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2009· 1 entry
“I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn. I got so I could paint a Schenley whiskey bottle in my sleep.”
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2003· 2 entries
Which travelled internationally, and was organized by curators Walter Hopps and Sarah Bancroft
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Art critic Peter Schjeldahl asked of Rosenquist's application of sign painting techniques to fine art thus: "[W]as importing the method into art a bit of a cheap trick
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2002· 1 entry
The Fundación Cristóbal Gabarrón conferred upon him its annual international award for art, in recognition of his contributions to universal culture
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1976· 1 entry
A year after his divorce, he moved to Aripeka, Florida
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1972· 1 entry
Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, and the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Rosenquist's work was the subject of several gallery and museum exhibitions, both in the United States and abroad
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1971· 1 entry
Rosenquist came to South Florida after receiving an offer from Donald Saff, dean of the University of South Florida's College of Fine Arts, to participate in the school's Graphicstudio, a collaborative art initiative
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1965· 3 entries
Was mentioned in a chapter of Polaroids from the Dead by Douglas Coupland
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With which he achieved international acclaim
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James Rosenquist completed F-111, his first solo show at Leo Castelli gallery, and one of the largest and most ambitious works in his collection
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1964· 1 entry
“They [art critics] called me a Pop artist because I used recognizable imagery. The critics like to group people together. I didn”
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1963· 1 entry
Appointment to a six-year term on the Board of the National Council of the Arts in 1978, and receiving the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement in 1988
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1955· 1 entry
At the age of 21, he moved to New York City on scholarship to study at the Art Students League, studying under painters such as Edwin Dickinson and George Grosz
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1933· 2 entries
In Grand Forks, North Dakota, the only child of Louis and Ruth Rosenquist
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Born 1933-11-29.
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