James Rosati (1911 in

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1911 – 1988 in

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) was an American abstract sculptor. He is best known for creating an outdoor sculpture in New York: a stainless steel ''

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Life

Born near

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, Rosati moved to New York in 1944, where he befriended fellow sculptor Phillip Pavia. He was a charter member of the Eighth Street Club (the Club) and the New York School of abstract expressionists. Rosati was among the participants in the

9th Street Art Exhibition The 9th Street Art Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture is the official title artist Franz Kline hand-lettered onto the poster he designed for the Ninth Street Show (May 21-June 10, 1951).

and the subsequent Stable Gallery shows. He met and became friends with painters

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter El ...

and

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, and sculptor David Smith. He was awarded the Mr and Mrs Frank G. Logan Art Institute Prize for sculpture in 1962 and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964. A 1969 show at Brandeis University lifted his career to new heights. He had other solo exhibitions and was in numerous group shows. Rosati is perhaps best known for his sculptures in stone from the 1960s, and the 1972 stainless steel Ideogram. that stood over tall on the plaza between Towers 1 and 2 of the

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in New York City. Rosati created many monumental pieces of sculpture which are located in the United States and around the world. After his death in 1988, he was interred at Immaculate Conception Cemetery in Washington, Pennsylvania.

Public collections

Public collections holding work by James Rosati include: *

Albright-Knox Art Gallery The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly known as the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, is an art museum at 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, in Delaware Park. the museum's Elmwood Avenue campus is temporarily closed for construction. It hosted e ...

(Buffalo, New York) *

Carnegie Museum of Art The Carnegie Museum of Art, is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute and was at what is now the Main Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsbur ...

(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) * Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection (Albany, New York) *

Grounds for Sculpture Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) is a sculpture park and museum located in Hamilton, New Jersey. It is located on the former site of Trenton Speedway. Founded in 1992 by John Seward Johnson II, the venue is dedicated to promoting an understanding ...

(Hamilton, New Jersey) *

Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single co ...

(Honolulu, Hawaii) * ''Museo della Scultural Contemporanea - Matera'' (Matera, Italy) * National Gallery of Art (Washington, D. C.) *

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–194 ...

(New York City) *

Yale University Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ...

(New Haven, Connecticut)

Selected works

* ''

Column I ''Column I'' is a 1983–1984 stainless steel sculpture by James Rosati, installed on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States. The abstract artwork was installed to commemorate Albert Elsen, an art history professor ...

'', Stanford University * ''

Loo Wit ''Loo Wit'' is an outdoor 1975–1976 sculpture by James Rosati, currently installed at the Seattle University campus in Seattle, Washington. Description The tall abstract sculpture is made of enameled aluminum, and rests on a concrete base. H ...

'', Seattle University * ''Upright Form V'', 1982, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts,

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, Montgomery, Alabama

References

Sources

*Marika Herskovic
''American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless''
(New York School Press, 2009.) . p. 204-207 * Marika Herskovic
''New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists,''
(New York School Press, 2000.) . p. 16; p. 25; p. 38; p. 314-317

External links

James Rosati - American Artist (1911-1988)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosati, James 1911 births 1988 deaths 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists Abstract expressionist artists American male sculptors American people of Italian descent Artists from New York City Artists from Pittsburgh Modern sculptors Sculptors from New York (state) Sculptors from Pennsylvania