Industrial+Cottage

Date: 1977
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/2005/2005.25A-E_1a.jpg?itok=B7x5644E width="443" height="198" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/industrial-cottage-75141"]] || Title: **Industrial Cottage**

Artist: **James Rosenquist** Born: Grand Forks, North Dakota 1933

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 80 x 182 in. (203.2 x 462.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Accession: 2005.25A-E || Industrial Cottage reflects the patchwork of neighborhoods and industrial parks along Florida's Gulf Coast where Rosenquist settled in 1976. The artist was working his way out of debt following a catastrophic car accident, and the title expresses his wry opinion of himself as a "cottage industry." Rosenquist divided the canvas into three zones, populating each with large forms that reflected his years as a billboard painter. In each zone, cold-hued machinery contrasts with softer forms and warmer colors. Rosenquist called the paintings from these years his "self-portraits," and the discordant images suggest that the professional pressures of earning a living—of "bringing home the bacon"—intruded on the comforts of home and his new relationship with the artist Susan Hall.
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