Accession Number
1976/2.126

Title
Ten Days

Artist(s)
James Rosenquist

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1973

Medium & Support
silkscreen on paper

Dimensions
9 in x 12 in (22.86 cm x 30.48 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Mr. Robert Rauschenberg

Subject matter
This print is part of a portfolio made in collaboration with Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT) and Moderna Museet as a fundraising effort for American artists. James Rosenquist is a pop artist who depicts "generic imagery" such as these nails and hair pins. Rosenquist makes a distinction between the items he portrays and Andy Warhol's iconic, branded imagery by saying "People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land. That was the imagery I was concerned with—things that were a little bit familiar but not things you feel nostalgic about."

 

Physical Description
This colorful, minimalist print shows five nails on the left (four red and one purple), and five bobby pins on the right (two yellow, two red, and one purple). Nails and bobby pins are arranged as tally marks, four vertical and one crossing horizontally.
Edition 225/300

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit http://umma.umich.edu/request-image for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form. Keywords
The New York Collection for Stockholm
hairpins
modern and contemporary art
nails (fasteners)
portfolios (groups of works)
primary colors
screen prints