James Francis Gill is one of the original American Pop Art artists. As early as 1962, the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired his “Marilyn Triptych”, and in 1967 he exhibited in São Paulo alongside Andy Warhol and Edward Hopper.
Critics soon saw him as more than a Pop artist: too much of a painter, too emotional in his subjects. In his late work he returns to the great icons, among them Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne and Paul Newman. Working from photographs, he fuses realism and abstraction into montages he calls “Metamage” or “Pop Surrealism”.
His work is held by MoMA, the Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
James Francis Gill is one of the original American Pop Art artists. As early as 1962, the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired his “Marilyn Triptych”, and in 1967 he exhibited in São Paulo alongside Andy Warhol and Edward Hopper.
Critics soon saw him as more than a Pop artist: too much of a painter, too emotional in his subjects. In his late work he returns to the great icons, among them Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne and Paul Newman. Working from photographs, he fuses realism and abstraction into montages he calls “Metamage” or “Pop Surrealism”.
His work is held by MoMA, the Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
