White Bread
James Rosenquist
1964
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 138.43 × 154.31 × 5.72 cm (54 1/2 × 60 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Richard S. Zeisler Fund
Accession Number
2008.36.1
About the Artist
James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist (1933–2017) was an American artist and a central figure of the Pop Art movement. Born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, he studied at the University of Minnesota and the Art Students League of New York. To support himself, he worked as a commercial billboard painter in Times Square — an experience that profoundly shaped his artistic vision and his command of monumental scale. Rosenqu...