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James Rosati (1911 in Washington, Pennsylvania 1911 – 1988 in New York City) was an American abstract sculptor. He is best known for creating an outdoor sculpture in New York: a stainless steel Ideogram that was located in the World Trade Center Plaza.

Life

Born near Pittsburgh, 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 and the subsequent Stable Gallery shows. He met and became friends with painters Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, 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 23-foot (7.0 m) tall on the plaza between Towers 1 and 2 of the World Trade Center 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 (Buffalo, New York)
• Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
• Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection (Albany, New York)
• Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, New Jersey)
• Honolulu Museum of Art (Honolulu, Hawaii)
• Museo della Scultural Contemporanea - Matera (Matera, Italy)
• National Gallery of Art (Washington, D. C.)
• Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City)
• Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Connecticut)

Selected works

• Column I, Stanford University
• Loo Wit, Seattle University
• Upright Form V, 1982, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Blount Cultural Park, Montgomery, Alabama

References

1. Senie, Harriet (2016). Memorials to shattered myths : Vietnam to 9/11. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190248406. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
2. "James Rosati (1911-1988) - Find A Grave Memorial". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
3. "James Rosati". Albright Knox. Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
4. "James Rosati". collection cmoa. Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
5. "Empire State Plaza Art Collection".
6. "James Rosati". Grounds For Sculpture. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2021.

Sources

• Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless (New York School Press, 2009.) ISBN 978-0-9677994-2-1. p. 204-207
• Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6. p. 16; p. 25; p. 38; p. 314-317

External links

• James Rosati - American Artist (1911-1988)

• 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
• American modern sculptors
• Sculptors from New York (state)
• Sculptors from Pennsylvania