1, 2, 3 Outside, James Rosenquist

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James Rosenquist, 1, 2, 3 Outside
James Rosenquist, 1, 2, 3 Outside
James Rosenquist
1, 2, 3 Outside
1963
James Rosenquist, artist
1933–2017
1, 2, 3 Outside, 1963
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: wood; canvas; wire; oil
Dimensions:
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 269.2 x 177.8 cm
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 106 x 70 in
Credit line: Gift from the Gene Swenson Collection
Accession number: 1970.0145
Not on display
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Images

Exhibitions

Art Into Art: Inspired Responses
2006–2007
Decade of Transformation: American Art of the 1960s
David Cateforis, curator
1999
James Rosenquist
Teresa Millet, curator
1991
20/21
Susan Earle, curator
2016–2021
20/21
Susan Earle, curator
2009–2015
20/21
Susan Earle, curator
2016–2021
Power Clashing: Clothing, Collage, and Contemporary Identities
Samantha Lyons, curator
2017
James Rosenquist Retrospective
1985
James Rosenquist Retrospective
1985
James Rosenquist Retrospective
1985–1986
James Rosenquist Retrospective
1986
James Rosenquist Retrospective
1986
James Rosenquist Retrospective
1986–1987
James Rosenquist: This American Life
Judith Goldman, curator
2018
From the Collection of the University of Kansas
1971
Jim Rosenquist Retrospective (Jim Rosenquist Exhibition)
1972
Jim Rosenquist Retrospective (Jim Rosenquist Exhibition)
1972
Gene Swenson: Retrospective for a Critic
1971

Resources

Audio

Didactic – Art Minute
Didactic – Art Minute
Episode 36. I’m David Cateforis with another art minute from the Spencer Museum of Art. “1, 2, 3 Outside” is the title of a 1963 painting in the Spencer collection by the American Pop artist James Rosenquist. Like other Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Rosenquist derived his subject matter from preexisting advertising images. Drawing on his professional experience as a billboard painter, he depicted his subjects on a large scale and fragmented them, so that they seem like something glimpsed rapidly. “1,2,3 Outside” consists of three sections. The bottom panel shows a segment of a fashion model’s white satin dress, rendered in a palette of red and white. The panel above bears the cropped, elevated view of the right front side of an automobile, rendered in blue and white. The red, white, and blue palette of these panels suggests that dresses and cars are typically American consumer items. Above the automobile are two silver-painted wooden posts along the picture’s sides, with a wire strung between them. These real elements heighten our awareness of the distance separating the everyday world from the glamorous illusions of both art and advertising, normally separate realms that Rosenquist merges seamlessly in his painting. From the Spencer Museum of Art, I’m David Cateforis.
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Audio Tour – Bulldog Podcast