print
- Museum number
- 2009,7050.1.4
- Title
- Object: F-111
- Description
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East: part 4 of a four-sheet composition with a fuselage of the F-111 fighter aeroplane, with extra elements: nose end with spaghetti, umbrella in front of an atomic mushroom, and air bubbles. 1974
Colour lithograph with screenprint
- Production date
- 1974
- Dimensions
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Height: 960 millimetres
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Width: 1936 millimetres
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Depth: 46 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of four panels comprising the work, 'F-111', published by Petersburg Press, London in an edition of 75.
Text from Coppel, Daunt and Tallman, 'The American Dream: pop to the present', London: Thames and Hudson in association with the British Museum, 2017, cat. no. 4:
Rosenquist’s most famous composition, 'F-111', 1964–65 (Museum of Modern Art, New York), a multi-panel, 26.2-metre long oil painting with aluminium (almost four metres longer than the actual military plane) was first shown in 1965 at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, in an immersive environment around the gallery’s four walls. Deployed in the Vietnam War from the late 1960s, the F-111 was the most advanced fighter-bomber of the United States Air Force; the mighty US industrial-military complex invested many millions of dollars in its development during the 1960s. In this gigantic four-panel print Rosenquist replicates the impact of his original painting made ten years earlier. Cutting through a series of fragmented images denoting the American Dream of domestic plenitude, steals the destructive fighter-bomber in all its sleek technical sophistication. Rosenquist rhymes the blonde girl under the hairdryer with the cone of a missile; the beach umbrella shelters the rising atomic cloud; the fragile household light bulb is broken like an egg. The disjunctive close-up images, dislocations of scale and the billboard format are deployed to brilliant effect in this print.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2017 9 Mar-18 Jun, London, BM, G30, The American Dream
2018 2 Jun-2 Sept, Paris, Fondation Custodia, The American Dream: pop to the present
2020-21 8 Oct-31 Jan, Madrid, La Caixa Forum, The American Dream: pop to the present
2021 2 Mar-13 Jun, Barcelona, La Caixa Forum, The American Dream: pop to the present
2021 13 Jul-14 Nov, Zaragoza, La Caixa Forum, The American Dream: pop to the present
- Acquisition date
- 2009
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2009,7050.1.4
