Off the Continental Divide
James Rosenquist
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Date:1973 - 1974 -
Style:Pop Art -
Genre:figurative -
Media:lithography, paper -
Location:Tate Modern, London, UK
Off the Continental Divide
James Rosenquist
Between starting and finishing this print, Rosenquist made a large four-panel painting of the same subject, ‘Slipping off the Continental Divide’. A study for the composition is in the Art Institute of Chicago. The imagery is divided between East and West halves: a car window frame, stairs, a book and nails in fives (as in primitive counting: four strokes and a fifth across them). The artist was born in North Dakota, near the Continental Divide along the Rocky Mountains; he has said ‘the whole print is about myself... I live in the middle of the country... and I can either go West or East’
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