James Rosenquist, Pop Art Pioneer, Dies at 83 -<br />By KEN JOHNSONAPRIL 1, 2017<br />James Rosenquist, who helped define Pop Art in its 1960s heyday with his boldly<br />scaled painted montages of commercial imagery, died on Friday in New York City.<br />Besides the show at the Guggenheim in 2003, Mr. Rosenquist had museum retrospectives at the National Gallery of Canada<br />in Ottawa in 1968; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1972; and the Denver Art Museum in 1985.<br />That same year his work was included in a survey of new art at Sidney Janis Gallery called “International Exhibition of the New Realists”<br />that put what would soon come to be known as Pop Art on the map of contemporary consciousness.<br />“Was importing the method into art a bit of a cheap trick?” the critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote in The New Yorker in<br />2003 on the occasion of a ballyhooed retrospective of Mr. Rosenquist’s work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.<br />A version of this article appears in print on April 2, 2017, on Page A24 of the New York edition<br />with the headline: James Rosenquist, Whose Paintings Helped Define Pop Art, Dies at 83.<br />William Acquavella, the New York art dealer, said that Mr. Rosenquist lost a significant amount of work in the fire.<br />In 1955, Mr. Rosenquist received a one-year scholarship to the Art Students League in New York, arriving with $350 in his pocket, he said.
