James Rosenquist obituary

Pop artist best known for the gallery-filling painting F-111In 1960, the painter Agnes Martin moved out of the studio in Lower Manhattan, New York, where she had worked for the two previous years. Her place was taken by a young man of Swedish descent from North Dakota called James Rosenquist. These were febrile times in American art. Martin had painted small-scale, abstract works of conventual reticence and calm. Rosenquist painted billboards.Until he moved into 3-5 Coenties Slip – the col