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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Period: 1970s
Artist: Tom Wesselmann
Shiny Nude, Pop Art Print by Tom Wesselmann
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Shiny Nude by Tom Wesselmann, American (1931–2004)
Date: 1977
Lithograph, numbered verso
Edition of 1000
Image Size: 5.75 x 5.75 inches
Size: 8 x 8 in. (20....
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1970s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Lithograph
Nude (Lithograph) /// Pop Art Nude Tom Wesselmann Screenprint Figurative Flower
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931-2004)
Title: "Nude (Lithograph)"
*Signed, dated, and numbered by Wesselmann in pencil lower right
Year: 1976
Medium: Original Lithograph and Sc...
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1970s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
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Lithograph, Screen
Study for Red Head Nude 1978 Colored Pencil drawing signed POP ART
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
"Study for Red Head Nude" 1978
Colored pencil & pen on paper
Signed
Provenance:
Ehrlich Gallery, New York, New York;
Private Collection, Washington, D...
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1970s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
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Paper, Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil
Shiny Nude lithograph
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Artist: Tom Wesselmann
Title: Shiny Nude
Year: 1977
Signed: No
Medium: Serigraph
Paper Size: 8 x 8 inches ( 20.32 x 20.32 cm )
Image Size: 6 x 5.75 inches (...
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1970s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Screen
Olympische Spiele Muenchen (Foot) by Tom Wesselmann
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Tom Wesselmann (1931 - 2004)
Title: Olympische Spiele Muenchen (Foot)
Year: 1972
Medium: Lithograph Poster mounted on linen
Edition:...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Lithograph
Shiny Nude (Stealingworth, 33)
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in New York, NY
Tom Wesselmann
Shiny Nude (Stealingworth, 33), 1977
Silkscreen on glossy cast-coated Kromekote paper
8 × 8 inches
Edition 489/1000
Pencil numbered 489/1000 with artists printed name on the verso; Held in original stamped envelope
Distributed by the Museum of Modern Art; printed by Unity Engraving Co.
Unframed
"Shiny Nude" - a dazzling limited edition, pencil numbered print features all of the hallmarks of the risque art arising from the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s- saturated lips, full pubic hair...
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1970s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
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Screen
Smoker, from: An American Portrait - Screenprint 1976 American Pop Art
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in London, GB
TOM WESSELMANN 1931-2004
Cincinnati 1834-2004 New York (American)
Title: Smoker, from: An American Portrait, 1976
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Screenprint in Colou...
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1970s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
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Screen
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...
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1970s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
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Oil
Nude (Lithograph) /// Modern Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Figurative Woman Lady Room
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931-2004)
Title: "Nude (Lithograph)"
*Signed, dated, and numbered by Wesselmann in pencil lower right
Year: 1976
Medium: Original Lithograph and Screenprint with Embossing on Rives BFK paper
Limited edition: 49/75, (there were also 12 artist's proofs)
Printer: Styria Studio, New York, NY
Publisher: Multiples Inc., New York, NY
Reference: "Tom Wesselmann" - Stealingworth page 285; "Synthesis and Tension: Tom Wesselmann's Editions" - Cristea Roberts Gallery No. 9, page 36-37
Sheet size: 22.5" x 30.13"
Image size: 13.5" x 23.63"
Condition: A superior example in mint condition
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: one owner ever - private collection - Chicago, IL; acquired from van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL in 1979, retaining their original gallery label. This work is also sometimes referred to as "Nude with Rose". Printed in thirty-four colors. Styria Studio chop mark/blind stamp lower right. Multiples Inc. chop mark/blind stamp lower left. Rives BFK watermark lower left. Some pencil inscribed reference numbers on verso.
Our example here is in mint condition with strong colors as the day it was printed having been previously archivally framed and properly stored. For reasons unknown, most all examples of "Nude (Lithograph)" that appear today, their colors have greatly attenuated (faded) over the past 45 years. Also, the printer and publisher of this edition are almost always incorrectly defined backwards, as Styria Studios as the publisher and Multiples Inc. as the printer.
William (Bill) van Straaten (1937-2013) founded van Straaten Gallery in Chicago in 1969, a contemporary art gallery with an international reputation. He served as president of the Chicago Art Dealers Association. He ran the gallery at 646 North Michigan Avenue for 33 years until 2002. In 2003, van Straaten moved his operations to Steamboat Springs, Colorado establishing Riverhouse Editions, a fine art publisher. In 2008, van Straaten moved to Denver and acquired the Sandy Carson Gallery on Santa Fe Drive, which operated as the van Straaten Gallery for five final years before closing in 2012.
Biography:
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...
Category
1970s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Smoker #21
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Smoker #21" is a shaped canvas painting by Pop artist Tom Wesselmann. The painting is signed and dated on the overturn edge, "Wesselmann 75".
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...
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1970s Pop Art Tom Wesselmann Art
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Canvas, Oil
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