Tom Wesselmann Art
American, 1931-2004
Thomas K. Wesselmann (February 23, 1931 – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture. Born on February 23, 1931, in Cincinnati, Ohio, cartoonist and collagist Tom Wesselmann eventually moved to New York City to become one of the founding figures of the Pop Art movement, making waves with his "Great American Nude" series. He later became well known for his huge canvas paintings of household objects as well as his printmaking and abstract work. He died on December 17, 2004.(Biography provided by Graves International Art)
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Artist: Tom Wesselmann
"Rosemary Lying On One Elbow" Laser Cut Steel Drawing
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: Tom Wesselmann
Title: Rosemary Lying on One Elbow
Medium: Laser Cut Steel
Edition: 45
Date: 1989
Dimensions: 8" x 15" X 1/8"
Description: Signed Unframed
Condition: ...
Category
1980s Abstract Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Laser
Fast Sketch of Still Life with Fruit and Goldfish
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in New York, NY
Screen Print in colors on Museum Board, Edition of 100
Signed and Dated
Provenance:
Artist Studio
Private Collection. CA
Private Collection, NY
Category
1980s Contemporary Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Screen
Fast Sketch Still Life with Abstract Painting
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in New York, NY
Screen Print in colors on Museum Board, Edition of 100
Signed and Dated
Provenance:
Artist Studio
Private Collection, CA
Private Collection, NY
Category
1980s Contemporary Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Screen
Smoking Cigar - American Pop Art Smoking Cigar Cigarette
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in London, GB
This unique work in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Wesselmann", at the centre of the lower image.
It is also dated in pencil “99” [1999] next to the signature.
The...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Board
Smoking Cigarette in Ashtray - Wesselmann - American Pop Art
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in London, GB
TOM WESSELMANN 1931-2004
Cincinnati 1931-2004 New York (American)
Title: Smoking Cigarette in Ashtray, 2000
Technique: Signed and Dated Liquitex on Bristol Board
Size: 23 x 19 cm...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Screen
Monica Nude with Matisse
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this etching and aquatint. Signed 75/75 in pencil by Wesselmann.
Category
1990s Modern Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Bedroom Brunette with Irises
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Tom Wesselmann. "Bedroom Brunette with Irises" is a contemporary wall sculpture, oil on cut-out aluminum by Blue Chip, Pop artist Tom Wesselmann. The work is unsigned. This piece was conceived in 1988 and frabricated by Lippincott Sculpture studio in 2004.
Tom Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati Ohio on February 23 1931. He attended college from 1945-1951, first at the Hiram College in Ohio and then the University of Cincinnati, where he majored in psychology. He was drafted during the Korean War in 1952, and it was during this time that Wesselmann did his first cartoons. After he was discharged and had finished in degree in psychology, Wesselmann began to study drawing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He sold his first cartoon strips to two magazines, 1000 Jokes and True.
In 1956, he was accepted to Cooper Union in New York and he continued his studies there. It was while he was studying in New York, specifically on a trip to the MoMA that Wesselmann became inspired by Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning. In 1958, a landscape painting trip to Cooper Union’s Green Camp in New Jersey brought him to the realization that he could make his career in painting, rather than cartooning.
After graduation, Wesselmann became one of the founding members of the Judson Gallery, along with Marc Ratliff and Jim Dine. Wesselmann also began to teach art at a public school in Brooklyn and later at the High School of Art and Design.
In 1961, Wesselmann began the series that would bring him to the attention of the art world, Great American Nude. After a dream concerning the phrase “red, white and blue”, Wesselmann decided to limit himself to a palette of only those colors (including colors like gold and khaki that are associated with patriotic motifs). This series incorporated representational images along the same patriotic theme, including American landscape photographs and portraits of the founding fathers. Wesselmann often collaged these images from magazines and discarded posters which required him to work in a much larger format than he was used to. As his works became larger and larger he approached advertisers directly to acquire billboards. Wesselmann’s first solo show was held in 1961 at Tanager Gallery. In 1962, Richard Bellamy gave him a one man exhibition at the Green Gallery.
In 1962, Wesselmann participated in the group exhibition “New Realists” at the Sidney Janis Gallery and kicked off his international career. In that same year his first pieces with the title of Still Life, came about. In these works, Wesselmann concentrated on the juxtaposition of different elements, i.e. a cigarette ad...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Metal
Smoker Study
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in London, GB
Tom Wesselmann
Smoker Study
1973
Oil on canvas
20.3 x 24.1 cms (8 x 9.5 ins)
TW5082
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist
Exhibited:
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, So...
Category
1970s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Oil
Monica Lying Down One Arm Up
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Tom Wesselmann, American (1931 - 2004)
Title: Monica Lying Down One Arm Up
Year: 1990
Medium: Lithograph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: 6/26
P...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Wildflower Bouquet" Laser Cut and Enamel Stainless Steel Drawing
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: Tom Wesselmann
Title: Wildflower Bouquet
Medium: Laser Cut and Enamel Stainless Steel
Edition: 30
Date: 1987
Dimensions: 38" X 27.75"
Description: Signed Unframed
Con...
Category
1980s Abstract Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Enamel, Stainless Steel
SEASCAPE TONDO
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition 19/30 (there were also ten artist’s proofs). From the portfolio Master American Contemporaries, Inaugural Print Invitational. Published by Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, printed by American Image, Katonah, NY, and labeled with the museum’s printed anniversary mark in the lower right corner.
Custom framed as pictured...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
MONICA SITTING CROSS-LEGGED
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition HC 3/6 (apart from the edition of 26 plus six artist’s proofs). Published by International Images, New York.
A...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
JEANNIE'S BACKYARD, EAST HAMPTON
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint on heavy wove paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. HC edition of 12 (there was also a main edition of 100). Published by International Images, Putney, Vermont....
Category
1980s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Screen, Paper
FROM BEDROOM PAINTING #41
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint on museum board. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 100. Published by International Images, Putney, Vermont. Sheet size 59 x 68 inches. Artwork is in e...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Board, Screen
MONICA NUDE WITH PURPLE ROBE
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Aventura, FL
Aquatint with embossing on BFK Rives paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 75. Printed by Branstead Studio, New York with their blind stamp. Published by Intern...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
MONICA SITTING BY WALL
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Inscribed ‘HC’ and numbered 3/6 (outside the main edition of 26). Published by International Images, Putney, Vermont.
...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Wildflower Bouquet
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Tom Wesselmann
Wildflowers
1987
Enamel on Laser Cut Steel
38 x 24 3/4 in.
Edition of 30
Signed & numbered on bottom and on verso
Accompanied with COA by Gregg...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Enamel, Steel
MONICA LYING DOWN ON ROBE
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Inscribed ‘HC’ and numbered 3/6. Sheet size 42 x 72 inches. Published by International Images, Putney, Vermont.
Artwo...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
MONICA LYING ON HER SIDE, WITH SCRIBBLE
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Inscribed ‘HC’ and numbered 3/6 (outside the main edition of 26). Published by International Images, Putney, Vermont. ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
MONICA LYING DOWN ONE ARM UP
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. HC Edition of 6. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will b...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Monica Lying On Her Side With Scribbles
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Wesselmann, Tom
Title: Monica Lying On Her Side With Scribbles
Date: 1990
Medium: Lithograph
Unframed Dimensions: 40.5" x 60"
Framed Dimensions: 44.5" x 64"
Signature: ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Lithograph
Smoking Cigarette #1
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Smoking Cigarette #1. Original color etching and soft-ground etching on Arches watercolor paper, 1991. Edition of 65 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper.
Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest American pop artists today. Even he did not like being labeled a pop artist, it is hard to imagine that his artworks featuring consumer goods and assorted American icons would be considered anything but pop art. At first he was a follower of abstract expressionism, but later switched to figurative art. In the late ‘50s he produced a series of small format collages, which became the basis for his future nudes and still lifes. In 1963 he married Claire Selley, his most faithful model from the series ‘Great American Nude’, and other nudes. In his search for creative styles he began to produce three-dimensional works with the technique of assemblage, using everyday objects such as telephones and televisions. In the ‘Still Life’ series he used advertising techniques and complemented traditional still lifes with mass consumption items taken directly from ads. In the ‘80s he began to work with metals and produced original works with a special laser. Over the next two decades he returned to large formats and the theme of the nude from the ‘60s, rounding off his career with The ‘Sunset Nude’ series, inspired by the works of Matisse. Tom Wesselmann went down in history as one of the greatest representatives of pop art due to his exciting commercial images, his aggressive intervention in three dimensions, his choice of trivial motifs, their monumentalisation, the use of stereotypes as a basis for his work and the choice of strong colors. Wesselmann’s aesthetic usage of everyday objects was done not in criticism of American consumerism and culture, but as a way to render Classical genres modern so as to explore the gap between art and contemporary life. The ‘Smoker Study’ series of works would become one of the most recurrent themes in the 1970s, which he developed throughout the rest of his artistic life. Characterized by the flattening and simplification of everyday subjects, here a single cigarette releases a precise stream of smoke. This burning cigarette on the first sight looks like just a banal representation of an everyday object, but it is more than this. Even cigarettes were one of the major consumer products, which we could previously often seen in different commercials with handsome men and pretty ladies, it also represents an allusion to the lips as an eroticized object...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Etching
Blue Socks
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Blue Socks. Original color liquitex on Ragboard, 1968.
Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest American pop artists today. Even he did not like being labeled a pop artist, it is hard to...
Category
1960s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Acrylic, Rag Paper
Study for Bedroom Blonde with Lavender Wallpaper
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Study for Bedroom Blonde with Lavender Wallpaper. Original color pencil and liquitex on Ragboard, 1985.
Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest Americ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Rag Paper, Color Pencil
Monica Cross-legged with Beads
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Monica Cross-legged with Beads. Original color steelcut (alkyd oil paint on cut-out steel), 1985/2004. Edition of 25 signed and numbered impressions on cut-out steel.
Tom Wesselmann ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Steel
Judy on Blue Blanket
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Judy on Blue Blanket. Original color silkscreen on Museum Board, 2000. Edition of 75 signed and numbered impressions on Museum Board.
Tom Wesselmann is on...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Screen
Monica Legs Crossed
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Tallinn, EE
Tom Wesselmann
(1931, Cincinnati, Ohio – 2004, New York)
Monica Legs Crossed, 1990
Signed in pencil and numbered PP 2/3
A printer's proof, aside from the edition of 26
Published by ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Lithograph
Monica Reclining Towards Right,
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Tallinn, EE
Tom Wesselmann
(1931, Cincinnati, Ohio – 2004, New York)
Monica Reclining Towards Right, 1990
Signed in pencil and numbered PP 2/3.
A printer's proof, aside from the edition of 26....
Category
1990s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Lithograph
Rosemary with Socks, Arms outstretched
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Rosemary with Socks, Arms outstretched. Original color steelcut (alkyd oil paint on cut-out steel), 1989/90. Edition of 25 signed and numbered impres...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Steel
Monica Nude with Lichtenstein
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Monica Nude with Lichtenstein. Original color silkscreen on cardboard, 2002. Edition of 60 signed and numbered impressions on a cardboard.
Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest American pop artists today. Even he did not like being labeled a pop artist, it is hard to imagine that his artworks featuring consumer goods and assorted American icons would be considered anything but pop art. At first he was a follower of abstract expressionism, but later switched to figurative art. In the late ‘50s he produced a series of small format collages, which became the basis for his future nudes and still lifes. In 1963 he married Claire Selley, his most faithful model from the series ‘Great American Nude’, and other nudes. In his search for creative styles he began to produce three-dimensional works with the technique of assemblage, using everyday objects such as telephones and televisions. In the ‘Still Life’ series he used advertising techniques and complemented traditional still lifes with mass consumption items taken directly from ads. In the ‘80s he began to work with metals and produced original works with a special laser. Over the next two decades he returned to large formats and the theme of the nude from the ‘60s, rounding off his career with The ‘Sunset Nude’ series, inspired by the works of Matisse. Tom Wesselmann went down in history as one of the greatest representatives of pop art due to his exciting commercial images, his aggressive intervention in three dimensions, his choice of trivial motifs, their monumentalisation, the use of stereotypes as a basis for his work and the choice of strong colors. Wesselmann’s aesthetic usage of everyday objects was done not in criticism of American consumerism and culture, but as a way to render Classical genres modern so as to explore the gap between art and contemporary life. He has a series that incorporated iconic paintings by other artists, including Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Matisse, juxtaposing with his famous nudes...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Screen
Rosemary Sitting Up Straight
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Tallinn, EE
Tom Wesselmann
(1931, Cincinnati, Ohio – 2004, New York)
Rosemary Sitting Up Straight, 1990
Signed in pencil and numbered PP 2/3.
A printer's proof, aside from the edition of 26.
...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Lithograph
Rosemary Lying on One Elbow
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Tom Wesselmann
Rosemary Lying on One Elbow
1989
Laser-cut steel with alkyd oil
9 x 14 in.
Edition of 45
Signed, titled, dated and numbered on verso
Accompanie...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Steel
Monica Lying Down One Arm Up
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in New York, NY
Signed and numbered in pencil
Category
20th Century Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Lithograph
Monica Sitting with Elbows on Knees
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph on Rives BFK White paper
Signed and numbered
Category
20th Century Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Lithograph
Blonde Vivienne
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Missouri, MO
Blonde Vivienne, 1985-86
Transfer-printed service plate in colors. Diameter: 12 in. (30.5 cm). published by Rosenthal, Limited Edition, Germany
Category
1980s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Ceramic
Smoking Cigarette #1
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in New York, NY
Tom Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 23, 1931. He attended Hiram College in Ohio from 1949 to 1951 before entering the University of Cincinnati. In 1953 his studi...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Etching
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