Disappears artist James Rosenquist, one of the fathers of Pop Art

James Rosenquist, one of the fathers of Pop Art along with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Indiana, passed away March 31 in New York City. The announcement was made yesterday by his wife, Mimi Thompson.

Less interested in celebrity than his colleagues, Rosenquist was probably the most civically engaged of the great Pop Art artists. A major retrospective on him had been organized at the Guggenheim in New York in 2003.

Rosenquist, however, struggled to call himself a Pop artist. To a question about whether he considered himself one, he replied, “Pop Art. I never cared much for the term, but after being described as a pop artist for half a century I resigned myself to it. And, to tell you the truth, I still have no idea what ’Pop Art’ means.”

Image: James Rosenquist, Fahrenheit 1982 Degrees (1982; colored ink and pencil on plastic, 68.9 x 166.7 cm; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art)

Disappears artist James Rosenquist, one of the fathers of Pop Art

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