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Discover Graphics

James Rosenquist

Graphicstudio United States

Artwork details

Artist: James Rosenquist
Title: Discover Graphics
Description: James Rosenquist created this eight-color lithograph in 1994 to commemorate Discover Graphics, a Smithsonian educational initiative exploring the printmaking process. Describing the imagery, Rosenquist explained that it depicts "a huge inked hand roller, rolling across our purple mountain majesties." He further noted that "the tops of the mountains are the metaphor for the raised printing surface on a lithographic stone," drawing a connection between the American landscape and the mechanics of lithographic printing.
Date: 1994
Medium: Photolithograph
Edition: 75
Signature: Signed
Image: 34 x 29.5 inches
Sheet: 38 x 33.5 inches
Status: Available
Price: $2,500.00

The Artist

James Rosenquist

Born in 1933, American James Rosenquist was one of the instigators of the Pop Art movement. The movement represents the integration of popular culture into fine art, and as such, Rosenquist’s previous occupation as a billboard painter helped influence his art in this direction. The characteristics of Pop Art – bright colours, dynamic shapes and the use of recognisable slogans and images – are clearly represented in Rosenquist’s work. His painting ‘F-111’ is made up of many images centred around a plane and is the size of a room.