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James Rosenquist was an American painter born in Grand Forks in 1933 and passed away in New York in 2017.
He is considered, together with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, as one of the fathers of Pop art.
His works portray iconic objects and characters of American society, such as President Kennedy, in a parodic and paroxysmal way.
He studied at the University of Minnesota and at the Art Students League in New York. His artistic research was characterized by continuous technical experimentation, which led to the creation of works on oil, canvas and aluminium, but also on transparent supports and using sophisticated printing technologies. Read the full biography

James Rosenquist was an American painter born in Grand Forks in 1933 and passed away in New York in 2017.
He is considered, together with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, as one of the fathers of Pop art.
His works portray iconic objects and characters of American society, such as President Kennedy, in a parodic and paroxysmal way.
He studied at the University of Minnesota and at the Art Students League in New York. His artistic research was characterized by continuous technical experimentation, which led to the creation of works on oil, canvas and aluminium, but also on transparent supports and using sophisticated printing technologies. In 1983 he received the World Print Council award for his innovative printing technique.
Among his most famous works are "F111" (1965, private collection), “Forest ranger" (1967, Cologne, Museum Ludwig) and “Time dust" (1992, private collection). In 1993 he held a traveling retrospective in the USA entitled “Time dust, complete graphics: 1962-1992”. Other important events were “James Rosenquist: paintings/James Rosenquist: select Dalí” at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2000 and “James Rosenquist: A retrospective", which was hosted at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in 2003 and subsequently at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2003-04 and in Bilbao in 2004.