James Rosenquist: A Pioneer of Pop Art and Surrealist Collage James Rosenquist (1933 – 2017) stands as one of the most distinctive voices in American art, particularly within the burgeoning Pop Art movement of the mid-1960s. Though he resisted categorization—declaring himself “not a pop artist”—Rosenquist’s groundbreaking approach to visual storytelling irrevocably altered perceptions of artistic expression and cemented his place amon…