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James Rosati (1911, Washington, Pennsylvania
Washington, Pennsylvania

Washington is a city in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States and part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The population was 15,268 at the 2000 census....
 1911- 1988, New York City
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) was an American abstract sculptor.

Born in Pennsylvania, Rosati moved to New York in 1944, where he befriended fellow sculptor Philip Pavia. He was a charter member of the Eighth Street Club (the Club) and the New York School
New York School

The New York School was an informal group of American poets, Paintings, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City. The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz...
 of abstract expressionists. Rosati was among the participants in the 9th Street Art Exhibition and the subsequent Stable Gallery shows.






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James Rosati (1911, Washington, Pennsylvania
Washington, Pennsylvania

Washington is a city in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States and part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The population was 15,268 at the 2000 census....
 1911- 1988, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
) was an American abstract sculptor.

Born in Pennsylvania, Rosati moved to New York in 1944, where he befriended fellow sculptor Philip Pavia. He was a charter member of the Eighth Street Club (the Club) and the New York School
New York School

The New York School was an informal group of American poets, Paintings, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City. The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz...
 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
Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning was an abstract expressionist artist, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.In the post-World War II era, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to variously as Abstract expressionism, Action painting, and the New York School....
 and Franz Kline
Franz Kline

Franz Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionism painters who were centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting....
, and sculptor David Smith
David Smith (sculptor)

David Roland Smith was an United States Abstract Expressionism sculptor best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures....
. He was awarded the Logan Medal of the arts
Logan Medal of the arts

The Logan Medal of the Arts is a prize started by patron of the arts Frank Granger Logan, founder of the brokerage house of Logan & Bryan. Logan served for over 50 years on the board of the Chicago Art Institute, and became its honorary president....
 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 stainless steel Ideogram that stood over 23 feet tall on the plaza between Towers 1 and 2 of the World Trade Center
World trade center

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 in New York City. About forty monumental pieces of sculpture are located in the United States and around the world. Public collections holding work by James Rosati include:
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
    Carnegie Museum of Art

    The Carnegie Museum of Art, located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was founded by the List of people from the Pittsburgh metropolitan area industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896 The museum holds a distinguished collection of contemporary art, including film and video works....
     (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
  • Empire State Collection (Empire State Plaza
    Empire State Plaza

    The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza is a complex of several state government buildings in downtown Albany, New York, New York....
    , Albany, New York)
  • Grounds for Sculpture
    Grounds for Sculpture

    Grounds For Sculpture is a 35-acre sculpture park and museum located in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, on the former site of the New Jersey State Fairgrounds....
     (Hamilton, New Jersey)
  • Honolulu Academy of Arts
    Honolulu Academy of Arts

    The Honolulu Academy of Arts was chartered in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke , who desired to share her love for the arts with the children of Honolulu and Hawaii....
     (Honolulu, Hawaii)
  • (Matera, Italy)
  • National Gallery of Art
    National Gallery of Art

    The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1938 by the United States Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by Andrew W....
     (Washington, D. C.)
  • Whitney Museum of American Art
    Whitney Museum of American Art

    The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", harbors one of the most important Collection of 20th century United States art....
     (New York City)
  • Yale University Art Gallery
    Yale University Art Gallery

    The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut....
     (New Haven, Connecticut)


Selected Works

Upright Form V, 1982, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is a museum located in Montgomery, Alabama, Alabama, USA, featuring several art collections. For seventy years, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts has been a showcase for the visual arts in Central Alabama....
, Blount Cultural Park, Montgomery
Montgomery, Alabama

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, Alabama
Alabama

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