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Henry's Arrival on the Art World Causes Gravity,
1997
James Rosenquist, American, 1933–2017
Printed at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE)
Printed at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE)
1998-284.8
Starting in the 1960s, critic and curator Henry Geldzahler served as an enthusiastic advocate for contemporary artists, becoming a fixture on the New York art scene for more than three decades. By supporting rising stars such as James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, and David Hockney, he helped many emerging artists become celebrities. Rosenquist here ruminates on Geldzahler’s impact by representing him as a multicolored meteor, one whose forceful collision with the art world created deep, meaningful, and irreversible effects. Part of The Geldzahler Portfolio, a series of ten prints commissioned by the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, this piece was created in honor of Geldzahler, who died in 1994.
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Title
Henry's Arrival on the Art World Causes Gravity
Dates
1997
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Medium
Color lithograph on Arches Cover paper
Dimensions
76.3 × 56 cm (30 1/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Art and Apparatus Fund
Object Number
1998-284.8
Place Made
North America, United States, New York, New York
Inscription
Numbered in graphite, bottom left: 35//75
Signed and dated in graphite, bottom right: James Rosenquist 1997
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- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1998," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 58, no. 1/2 (1999): p. 86-123., p. 101 (illus.), p. 107
- Johanna Burton et al., Pop art: contemporary perspectives, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT: distributed by Yale University Press, 2007), p. 137 (illus.)
