James Rosenquist died On March 31, in New York, at the age of 83, the American artist James Rosenquist, one of the largest representatives of the pop art, died. It is reported by The New York Times . James Rosenquist was born in 1933, in 1952–1954 he studied painting at the University of Minnesota, in 1955–57 he was a scholarship holder of the New York Students League, and in the late 1950s he earned a living, painting signs and billboards.