F-111
James Rosenquist
American, 1933–2017
1964-65
A monumental oil-on-canvas with aluminum composed of twenty-three joined sections, Rosenquist’s F-111 collages blown-up fragments of advertising and machinery—jet parts, tires, food—to force a clash between consumer imagery and the instruments of war.
What strikes you first is the overwhelming, billboard scale and garish palette: sweeping red jet forms, repeating graphic patterns and crisp product close-ups that spill across seams and read like a cinematic, disjunctive montage.
A landmark of Pop Art, F-111 moved advertising techniques into the gallery as a room‑filling political statement, helping to expand painting into media-savvy, large-scale social critique.
Medium
Oil on canvas with aluminum, twenty-three sections
Dimensions
10 x 86' (304.8 x 2621.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alex L. Hillman and Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (both by exchange)
Accession
473.1996.a-w
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