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horse blinders, 1968, james rosenquist

Currency:USD Category:Art Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:1.00 - 100,000.00 USD
horse blinders, 1968, james rosenquist
Donated by Eckert Fine Art Naples, Inc. James Rosenquist was born in 1933, in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He studied art in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and at the Art Student's League in New York City. Both in Minnesota and later in New York, he was employed as a sign painter and worked on enormous displays, including billboards in New York City's Times Square. Because much of his work incorporates a "billboard" style and focuses on American popular culture, Rosenquist is considered an early leader of the Pop Art movement. He incorporates disparate and fragmented images of everyday American life into his huge canvases. Although they are realistically painted, they can appear abstract because of their vast scale and color. His best-known painting, F-111 (1965), is a 51-panel work occupying the walls of an entire room; it enigmatically juxtaposes such images as a warplane, a child under a hair dryer, a cake, a mushroom cloud and a beach umbrella, light bulbs, a tire, and a mass of spaghetti. However, he has also used surrealist elements in his work. Rosenquist works in sculpture, mixed media and collage and is also a prolific painter. His paintings are displayed at major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.<BR>Horse Blinders, 1968 is a signed lithograph, edition 4/5 and is donated by Eckert Fine Art Naples, Inc.
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