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James Rosenquist Biography
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1933 |
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Born November 29 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Parents Louis and Ruth Rosenquist of Swedish descent. Family settles in Minneapolis in 1942.
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1948 |
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Wins junior high school scholarship to study art at the Minneapolis School of Art
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1952 - 1954 |
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Attends the University of Minneapolis and studies with Cameron Booth. Visits The Art Institute of Chicago to study old masters and 19th century paintings. Paints storage bins, grain elevators, and gasoline tanks during the summer. Works for General Outdoor Advertising, Minneapolis and paints commercial billboards
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1955 |
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Receives scholarship to the Art Students League, New York: studies with Morris Kantor, George Grosz and Edwin Dickinson
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1957 - 1959 |
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Becomes a member of the International Sign, Pictorial and Display Union, local 230. Employed by A.H. Villerpigue, Inc., General Outdoor Advertising, Brooklyn, and Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation. Paints billboards in the Times Square area and other parts of New York
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1960 |
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Quits working for Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation. rents a loft at 3- Coenties Slip; neighbours include painters Jack Youngerman, Ellsworth Kelly, and Robert Indiana
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1961 |
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Paints ’Zone’ (1961), first studio painting to employ commercial techniques
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1963 |
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Commissioned by Philip Johnson to paint mural for the New York World’s Fair, New York State Pavilion. exhibits in ‘Americans 1963’ at the Museum of Modern Art in the ’Six painters and the object’ at the Solomon R Guggenheim museum
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1967 |
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Moves to Long Island
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1975 |
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Lobbies in Washington, D.C. with Marion Javits and Robert Rauschenberg for a law to allow artists to get a 15% royalty after the art work has been resold
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1976 |
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Builds a house and studio with Gilbert Flores, architect, in Aripeka, Florida
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1977 |
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Purchases building on Chamber Street, NY. In Florida, paints a number of 15 feet paintings for Leo Castelli
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1978 |
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Appointed to six-year term as member of the National Council on the Arts, Washington, D.C.
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1980 |
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Painted ‘Star Thief’, 17’ x 46’
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1986 |
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F-111 is sold at Sotheby’s for $2.09 million for the estate of Robert C. Scull
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1987 |
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Nominated into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
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1988 |
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Receives Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement, Nashville, Tennessee. Exhibits ‘Through the Eye of the Needle to the Anvil’ (1988), 17’ x 46’, at Leo Castelli gallery, New York
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1998 |
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Completes ceiling mural for the Palais de Chaillot in Paris for the 50th anniversary signing of the Rights of Man by Eleanor Roosevelt
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Pop and Op, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
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2008
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Modern Prints - Klassische Moderne bis Pop Art, Galerie Proarta, Zurich
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2007
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When Art Worlds Colldie - The 60's, Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY
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2006
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Works on Paper, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
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2003 - 2004
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A Retrospective’ The Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (Moving to the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Guggenheim, Bilbao)
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2003 - 2004
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‘James Rosenquist: Recent Paintings’ at Robert McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
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2003 - 2004
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‘American Pop Icons’ at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum at the Venetian, Las Vegas, NV
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2003 - 2004
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‘James Rosenquist Collages’ Opening exhibition at Jacobson Howard, New York
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2001
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Gagosian Gallery, New York (solo)
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2000
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‘James Rosenquist: Paintings/James Rosenquist: Selects Dali’ at the Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
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1999
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One Man exhibition entitled ‘Meteors: New Paintings’ at Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado (solo)
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1999
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‘The Swimmer in the Econo-mist’ was shown at the opening exhibition of the Massachusetts Guggenheim Museum of Contemporary Art
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1998
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‘The Summer in the Econo-mist’ is exhibited at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Germany
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1998
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‘New Paintings, After Berlin’ shown at Feigen Contemporary in New York
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1997
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‘Singapore’ shown at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, France
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1997
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New works exhibited at Wetterling Teo Gallery in Singapore
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1996
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, France and Salzburg, Austria and a Feigen Incorporated in Chicago, Illinois (solo)
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1995
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PYO Gallery in Seoul, South Korea and Civico Museo Revoltella in Trieste, Italy (solo)
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1994
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Commemorates 30 years with Leo Castelli Gallery with the exhibition ‘The Big paintings, Thirty Years’
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1994
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Wetterling Teo Gallery, Singapore (solo)
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1993
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‘Time Dust, Complete Graphics: 1962-92’ print exhibition that travels to 10 venues
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1993
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Recent painting exhibitions at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg, Austria
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1993
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‘Gift Wrapped Doll’ paintings exhibited at Feigen Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois
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1992
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‘The Early Picture 1961-64’ exhibited at Gagosian Gallery, New York
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1992
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Galleria Weber, Alexander y Cobo in Madrid, Spain and at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, France (solo)
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1991
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Retrospective exhibition at the Central Hall of Artists, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow and at IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
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1988
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Exhibits ‘Through the Eye of the Needle to the Anvil’ (1988), 17’ x 46’, at Leo Castelli gallery, New York
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1983
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Exhibits ‘Four New Clear Women’ (1982), 17’ x 24’, for the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York
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1983
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Exhibits ‘Star Thief’ at Centre for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
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1981
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Exhibits ‘Star Thief’ in one-man exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery (solo)
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