page_title: James Gill (artist)
section_title: Rediscovery
hierarchical_section_title: James Gill (artist) / Life / Rediscovery
caption_attribution_description: English: James Gill's painting "Behind the shadow (retudy)", 2003
context_page_description: James Francis Gill is an American artist and one of the protagonists of the Pop art movement.
  In 1962, the Museum of Modern Art included his Marilyn Tryptych into its permanent collection. At the peak of his career, Gill retired. He returned to the art scene around 30 years later.
context_section_description: Parallel to his work as an architectural designer in Northern California, Gill began again with painting in the mid 1980s. He returned to Texas and developed his art, but without going to the public.
  However, his life changed dramatically when about ten years later, the art magazine "American way" of the Smithsonian American Art Museum called him and asked for an interview. This marked the beginning of his rediscovery, and numerous galleries and museums became aware of him again.
  Around 1987, Gill started to work with the tools of computer design, using "the computer and the printer as a drawing tool".
  For the first time in 2005, a retrospective was held in his hometown San Angelo at the Museum of Fine Arts.
caption: Behind the shadow, restudy (2003)
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