Theo Wujcik

James Rosenquist from the Mentors Series, Etching by Theo Wujcik

1976

Artist: Theo Wujcik, American (1936 - 2014) Title: Jim Dine from the Mentors Series Year: 1976 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 40 Image Size: 16.5 x 21 inches...

A print by James Rosenquist from 1978. This print is multi-layered with different mediums including etching with aquatint, pochoir and paint. Artist: James Rosenquist, American (19...

James Rosenquist (1933 - 2017) Swing Screen, 1979 Etching and aquatint (two state) Sight: 17 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (image) Framed: 30 1/2 x 59 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. Edition 21/78 Inscribed, signed, numbered bottom James Rosenquist was born in 1933 at Grand Forks, North Dakota. His family moved to Minneapolis in 1944. In 1948, he began his studies of art at the Minneapolis Art Institute. In 1953, he continued his studies of painting at the University of Minnesota. In 1955 he had a scholarship to go to the Art Students' League, New York, where he met Robert Indiana. During this period, he painted small format abstract paintings and worked part-time as a driver. In 1957 he met Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. In 1959 he was at the same drawing class as Claes Oldenburg and was made "head painter" by the Artcraft Strauss Corporation. He married the textile designer Mary Lou Adams. During the election he produced the picture President Elect in which John F. Kennedy's face is combined in a kind of collage with sex and automobile imagery. His first one-man exhibition in the Green Gallery, in 1962, was sold out. In 1963 he worked on several sculptures, had a number of exhibitions at the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, showed his work at the Dwan Gallery...

James Rosenquist (1933-2017) Just Desert (2nd State) (1979, 1979 Etching and aquatint on Pescia Italia paper Printed by Aripeka, Ltd., Aripeka. Published by Multiples, Inc., New York...