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Drawings

Fahrenheit 1982 Degrees

James Rosenquist

1982

Medium
Brush, airbrush and colored ink and graphite pencil on frosted plastic
Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 33 1/8 × 71 1/2 in. (84.1 × 181.6 cm) Image (Sight): 27 1/8 × 65 5/8 in. (68.9 × 166.7 cm)
Accession number
82.35
Acquired
1982
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the John I. H. Baur Purchase Fund, the Mr. and Mrs. M. Anthony Fisher Purchase Fund and The Lauder Foundation--Drawing Fund
Reproduction credit
© Estate of James Rosenquist / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

James Rosenquist, Fahrenheit 1982 Degrees, 1982. Brush, airbrush and colored ink and graphite pencil on frosted plastic, sheet (Sight): 33 1/8 × 71 1/2 in. (84.1 × 181.6 cm) Image (Sight): 27 1/8 × 65 5/8 in. (68.9 × 166.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the John I. H. Baur Purchase Fund, the Mr. and Mrs. M. Anthony Fisher Purchase Fund and The Lauder Foundation--Drawing Fund 82.35. © Estate of James Rosenquist / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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