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Two color etching and aquatint with pochoir techniques enhanced by hand-applied paint using a tire. on Pescia Italia paper. Number 78 of edition of 78. Printed by Flastone Studios and published by Multiples Inc, New York. Glenn 119A

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James Rosenquist

American

1933-2017

James Albert Rosenquist (Born November 29, 1933 in Grand Forks, ND, died March 31, 2017) was an American artist and one of the proponents of the pop art movement. Drawing from his background working in sign painting, Rosenquist's pieces often explored the role of advertising and consumer culture in art and society, utilizing techniques he learned making commercial art to depict popular cultural icons and mundane everyday objects. While his works have often been compared to those from other key figures of the pop art movement, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist's pieces were unique in the way that they often employed elements of surrealism using fragments of advertisements and cultural imagery to emphasize the overwhelming nature of ads. He was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.[3]

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