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James Rosenquist is known for producing large collages that incorporated fragments of images sourced from advertisements and other forms of mass media. The American artist was one of the major figures of the Pop art movement. On 1stDibs, find a range of James Rosenquist art.
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Sightseeing James Rosenquist text Pop Art
By James Rosenquist
Located in New York, NY
Sightseeing is one of a group of ten prints which the artist made at Petersburg Press in 1972, each based on one of his paintings. Rosenquist’s Sightseeing 1962 oil painting on canva...
Category
1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
"Night Transitions" by James Rosenquist, 1985
By James Rosenquist
Located in Hinsdale, IL
JAMES ROSENQUIST
(B. 1933)
"Night Transitions"
12 color lithograph on Arches, 1985
Catalog #204
Sheet size: 47” x 30”
Printers Proof 2/4 – full edition of 35, and 7 AP
Signed, ...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Large American Pop Art Abstract Aquatint Etching James Rosenquist Just Desert
By James Rosenquist
Located in Surfside, FL
James Rosenquist (1933-2017)
Just Desert (2nd State) (1979, 1979
Etching and aquatint on Pescia Italia paper
Printed by Aripeka, Ltd., Aripeka. Published by Multiples, Inc., New York...
Category
1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Henry's Arrival on the Art World Causes Gravity, from The Geldzahler Portfolio
By James Rosenquist
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1997, on Arches Cover paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (there were also 15 artist’s proofs), printed by Universal Limited Art...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
James Rosenquist Original Etching & Aquatint, 1979
By James Rosenquist
Located in Larchmont, NY
James Rosenquist (1933 - 2017)
Swing Screen, 1979
Etching and aquatint (two state)
Sight: 17 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (image)
Framed: 30 1/2 x 59 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.
Edition 21/78
Inscribed, signed, numbered bottom
James Rosenquist was born in 1933 at Grand Forks, North Dakota. His family moved to Minneapolis in 1944. In 1948, he began his studies of art at the Minneapolis Art Institute. In 1953, he continued his studies of painting at the University of Minnesota.
In 1955 he had a scholarship to go to the Art Students' League, New York, where he met Robert Indiana. During this period, he painted small format abstract paintings and worked part-time as a driver. In 1957 he met Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. In 1959 he was at the same drawing class as Claes Oldenburg and was made "head painter" by the Artcraft Strauss Corporation.
He married the textile designer Mary Lou Adams. During the election he produced the picture President Elect in which John F. Kennedy's face is combined in a kind of collage with sex and automobile imagery. His first one-man exhibition in the Green Gallery, in 1962, was sold out. In 1963 he worked on several sculptures, had a number of exhibitions at the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, showed his work at the Dwan Gallery...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Ice Point
By James Rosenquist
Located in Austin, TX
Lithograph on Arches Cover paper
Signed, dated, titled and numbered (along lower edge)
(145/150)
Publisher: Visconti Fine Art and Lazo Vujic
Printed by: Flatstone Studio, Sarasota
Category
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph