for him on a weekly basis. Being a single mother, this was a hard contract to meet. Rosamond purchased a projector and according to her ex-husband, Garth Benton, employed images of models she cut out from fashion magazines, then broadcast them on empty canvas. Nevertheless, her immense talent, combined with the climate of the era and the 1970s feminist zeitgeist, had Rosamond selling millions of her paintings around the world. A Rosamond print was a symbol of affluence. Rise to fame Though Rosamond saw massive success during her time working for Ira Cohen, she also felt as though her work was being devalued; she believed her art belonged in galleries and not simply on merchandise. In an attempt to elevate her work from poster to fine art, Rosamond began a working relationship with the art printer Jack Solomon, owner of Circle Gallery in San Francisco. Solomon commissioned painters for lithographs, and in this environment where Rosamond's art was not only appreciated but celebrated, she experienced her most meteoric rise to fame of her young career. For a brief period, she was known as "the most published artist in the world." She continued to paint and release images as lithographs under the banner of her company to keep artistic control. Rosamond spent four months in Paris, completing four new lithographs with the prestigious Atelier Mourlot. Rosamond had a falling out with her brother John when he met her new husband, Richard Partlow, a Grammy-winning foley artist. After the failure of that marriage, Rosamond would later marry Garth Benton, cousin of the muralist and artist Thomas Hart Benton, who was the teacher and friend of Jackson Pollack. Death Just weeks after Rosamond's last art expo in 1994, she was invited to stay in a famous home twenty miles south of Carmel at Rocky Point. As reported in the Carmel Pinecone, Rosamond had nightmares about a giant wave causing her demise. On March 26, 1994, Rosamond, her sister, Vicki Presco, her son, Shamus Dundon, and Christine's daughter, Drew Benton, were getting ready for a party that Stacey Pierrot was going to attend. The four were not exploring tide-pools, because there are none at Rocky Point. How Christine ended up in the ocean, remains a mystery. The claim a rogue wave, "unusual for that time of year" took her out to sea, is fictitious. There is no season for rogue waves. Rosamond was 46,