The Rosenquist selections track his maturing Pop Art style, influenced by his experience as a billboard painter, and include some small scruffy collages.

He is an artist by avocation and a formerly a billboard painter.

From 1957 to 1960, he earned his living as a billboard painter.

When Afrikaner police kept photographers from covering a riot, Reza donned the outfit of a billboard painter to stay on the scene.

Although he had no formal training in art, he found work as a billboard painter.

"We couldn't just hire a billboard painter to do it because within hours, the walls would be tagged," Ms. Garza said.

He also gains their friendship when he plays a prank on a billboard painter.

Working both as a billboard painter and a comic strip artist, Samba used the styles of both genres when he began making his paintings on sacking cloth.

Larry Haje, a retired resident and a neighbor of the deputy mayor, drew from his experience as a billboard painter.

Teed lived in New York as a billboard painter until 1890.