FARGO, ND.- Thanks to an anonymous donor in the region, Plains Art Museum in Fargo, N.D. will acquire James Rosenquist’s The North Dakota Mural, a major new work 13 feet high and 24 feet wide. The donor’s contribution of $600,000 will be matched with an equal donation from the artist for the commissioned mural. Rosenquist is considered one of the founders of the Pop art movement and one of the most important artists of his generation. The mural is the second one that he painted as The North Dakota Mural. The first mural, completed in January 2009, burned in a brush fire that consumed his Aripeka, Fla., home and studio last April. He lost dozens of artworks and his personal possessions in the fire. The fate of the mural hung in limbo before the donor stepped forward. “The first time I made the piece, it was fantastic, marvelous,” Rosenquist said, “and then it burned up. I had nothing, not even a brush,
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