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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.
