A Pale Angel's Halo
1973
30 1/4 x 22 1/2 in. (76.8 x 57.2 cm)
James Rosenquist
American
(Grand Forks, ND, 1933 - 2017, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Lithograph and serigraph
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1973.113
Location: Not currently on view
Printer:
Styria Studio, New York
Publisher:
Multiples, Inc., New York
Portfolio:
Reality and Paradoxes
Poet and art critic Nicolas Calas wrote of this image when it was published as part of a portfolio titled Reality and Paradoxes in 1973: “An inward image, transmitted verbally, has the power to transform a common image into an exceptional one. Blue, yellow and red express a divine utterance in primary colors: ‘pale angel.’ Suddenly the yellow is apprehended as gold, the ground as heavenly blue, the handle as the outline of a halo, and also of the back of an angel’s head and ears. The cut away space of the pail’s body recalls the ethereal quality of angels.”
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]