Rosenquist took freely from advertising, stock imagery, TV screens, movie posters, anywhere. He painted gloves, chocolate cake, paper clips, Noxzema facial cream, cars, combs, lipstick, hair, guns ...

James Albert Rosenquist was born in Grand Forks, N.D., on Nov. 29, 1933, and grew up in various towns in Minnesota and Ohio before his parents settled in Minneapolis in 1944.

James Rosenquist, a titan of postwar American art whose roots as a commercial billboard painter allowed him to paint vivacious Pop amalgamations at an often dizzying scale, has passed away at age 83.

Artist James Rosenquist, a key figure in the pop art movement, has died. He was 83.