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Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Sight Seeing
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Held by the artist.

Sight Seeing

Artist/Maker (United States, 1933-2017)
Date1972
Mediumlithograph
DimensionsSight: 22 3/8 x 28 5/8 in. (56.8 x 72.7 cm)
Sheet: 30 3/4 x 37 in. (78.1 x 94 cm)
Framed: 33 3/4 x 39 3/4 x 1 in. (85.7 x 101 x 2.5 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Martin B. Grossman
Terms
    Object number78.029.011
    DescriptionThe fractured imagery in Sight Seeing, from the 1962 painting of the same title, features roses (a signatory image, as Rosenquist means rose twig in Swedish) and the back view of a sightseeing bus, a sight familiar to Rosenquist from his days as a billboard painter in Times Square. In the original work, real wood strips frame shattered glass. Judith Goldman called the painting a commentary on the true nature of seeing. (James Rosenquist, Viking Penguin, Inc, 1985).
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