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Tumbleweed

Photo: Mark Woods
Photos created under SAM Work for Hire Agreement

Tumbleweed

1963-1966

James Rosenquist

American, 1933 - 2017

Chromed barbed wire, neon and wood
54 x 60 x 60 in. (137.2 x 152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
2014.25.66
Provenance: [Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, Feb. 16, 1970
Photo: Mark Woods
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940 – 1970, Oct. 18, 1969 - Feb. 1, 1970, no. 343.

Cologne, Germany, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, James Rosenquist Retrospective, January 28 – March 12, 1972 (New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Apr. 11 - May 29, 1972; Chicago, Illinois, Museum of Contemporary Art, dates unknown).

Pullman, Washington, The Museum of Art, Washington State University, Two Decades of American Sculpture – From Northwest Collections, Oct. 7 - Nov. 18, 1977

New York, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Transformations in Sculpture, Nov. 22, 1985 - Feb. 16, 1986

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, March 4, 1999 - May 5, 1999

Houston, Texas, The Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, James Rosenquist: A Retrospective, May 17 – August 17, 2003 (New York, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Oct. 16, 2003 - Feb. 4, 2004).
Published ReferencesKritzwiser, Kay, Ottawa Shows Pop Rosenquist in The Globe and Mail (Ottawa), 24 January 1968, p.14.

Vigeant, André, James Rosenquist: temps-espace-mouvement in Vie die Arts, no. 51 (Summer 1968): 58–61. Illus. p.61.

Geldzahler, Henry, New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969, illus. p.269.

Perreault, John, Exhibition review, Village Voice, April 20, 1972.

Siegel, Jeanne, An Interview with James Rosenquist in Artforum 10, no. 10 (June 1972): 30–34. Ref. pp. 32, 33; destroyed version illus. p.34.

Alloway, Lawrence, Derealized Epic in Artforum 10, no. 10 (June 1972): 35–41.

Tucker, Marcia, James Rosenquist, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972. Pp.36, 74.

Brenda, Richardson, Bruce Nauman: Neons, Balitmore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1982. Pp.16-17 (illustrated).

Webb, Michael, The Magic of Neon, Salt Lake City: G. M. Smith, 1983.

Waldman, Diane, Transformations in Sculpture: Four Decades of American and European Art, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1985.

Goldman, Judith, James Rosenquist, New York: Viking Penguin Press Inc., 1985. Pp.48, 124.

Bruggen, Coosje van, Bruce Nauman, New York: Rizzoli, 1988.

Sandler, Irving, American Art of the 1960s, New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Pp. 178-180 (illustrated).

Adcock, Craig, et al. Rosenquist. Valencia: Insitut Valencia d'Art Modern, 1991, illus. p.70.

[Damiani, Roberto, Maria Masau Dan, and Craig Adcock,] James Rosenquist: Gli anni Novanta, Triesta: Civico Museo Revoltella, 1995, pp. 20, 26, illustrated.

Rosenblum, Robert et. al. James Rosenquist: The Swimmer in the Econo-mist, New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1999, P.8.

Fairbrother, Trevor, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, 1999. P.20.

Hackett, Regina, The Wrights' Modern Art Collection Spans the Spectrum with Confidence, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 4, 1999, E1.

Jeffett, William, James Rosenquist–It Heals Up: For All Children's Hospital, Tampa, Florida: Contemporary Art Museum, Institute for Research in Art, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of South Florida, 2002.

Schjeldahl, Peter, The Art World: Time Pieces, James Rosenquist at the Guggenheim, in The New Yorker 79, no. 32 (27 October 2003), pp. 106–107.

Minthorn, David, Pop Artist Rosenquist Spills Paint on History in Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, November 23, 2003: F3.

Hopps, Walter, James Rosenquist: A Retrospective, New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2004. Cat. no. 64. Pp. 142-143

van der Marck, Jan, Reminiscing on the Gulf of Mexico: A Conversation with James Rosenquist, in American Art 20, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 84–107, p.90 illustrated.

Rosenquist, James, with David Dalton, Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, pp. 183–184; illus. p. 185.

Wilmerding, John, The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art, New York: Acquavella Galleries, 2013, p.138.

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