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New in the CollectionsSource: Minnesota History, Vol. 55, No. 7 (Fall, 1997)Published by: Minnesota Historical Society PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20188059 .

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Mew in the Collections

James Rosenquist's career

stretches from a stint at

painting billboards through

notoriety in the Pop Art

movement of the 1960s to his

status today

as a painter and

printmaker of international

renown. Born in North

Dakota in 1933, he grew up in western Minnesota and in

Minneapolis, where he stud

ied with Cameron Booth at

the University of Minnesota.

Rosenquist supported him

self by painting billboards

and signs in rural Minnesota

before moving to New York

at Booth's encouragement.

There, he combined bright, realistic, larger-than-life frag

ments of faces and objects in a signature style that leads the viewer to puzzle out the meaning of his compositions. Sheer Line (color lithograph, 1978) brings together images that allude to writing and recording, travel, and

speaking?though the artist's message is deliberately and playfully ambiguous. The first example of Rosenquist's work to enter the MHS collections, Sheer Line was a gift of members of the MHS Executive Council and

Committee in honor of Nina M. Archabal's tenth anniversary as the Society's director. Her selection of this print also acknowledges her friendship with Rosenquist's mentor Booth, whom Dr. Archabal profiled in Minnesota

History in 1980. ?Thomas O'Sullivan, curator of art

\M Minnesota Historical Society OFFICERS

Karen A. Humphrey President

Richard T. Murphy, Sr.

First Vice-President

Sylvia C. Kaplan Vice-President

Joseph S. Micallef Vice-President

Peter R. Reis

Vice-President

Raymond A. Reister

Vice-President

Bruce W. Bean

Treasurer

Nina M. Archabal

Secretary

EX-OFFICIO COUNCIL

Arne Carlson

Governor

Joanne Benson

Lieutenant Governor

COUNCIL

Arnold C. Anderson

D. H. Ankeny, Jr.

Charles W. Arnason

Annette Atkins

Sharon L. Avent

Gretchen U. Beito

Charlton Dietz

Roland P. Dille

Joan Anderson Growe

Secretary of State

Hubert H. Humphrey III

Attorney General

Carl B.Drake, Jr.

James S. Griffin

Rosalie H. Hall

Jean L. Harris

Marshall R. Hatfield

Lucy R. Jones

Lois E.Josefson

Elizabeth S. MacMillan

Judi Dutcher State Auditor

Michael McGrath

State Treasurer

Donald C. Mcllrath

William C. Melton

Fred Perez

Kennon V. Rothchild

Janet R. Shapiro

Eugene C. Sit

Paul A. Verret

Eleanor C. Winston

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