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TOM WESSELMANN
BORN: 1931 Cincinnati, OH
EDUCATION:
1949-51 Hiram College, Ohio
1951-56 BA, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1954-56 Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1956-59 The Cooper Union, New York
OVERVIEW:
One of the original American Pop artists, Tom Wesselmann was born February 23, 1931 in Cincinnati, Ohio. After enrolling at the University of Cincinnati, his studies were interrupted by a two-year enlistment in the army. Upon his return, he received his bachelor's degree in psychology and moved to New York in 1956, where he studied at the Cooper Union School for Arts and Architecture. It was here that Wesselmann redirected his focus towards fine art, while working as a cartoonist for several magazines and newspapers, and teaching high school in Brooklyn.
During the 1950's, Wesselmann created small collages that would be precursors to his later series Great American Nudes and Still Life. Using collages and assemblages, the artist incorporated everyday objects and advertising into his works. By the 1960's, he had become one of the leading Pop artists, favoring classical representation of still life, nudes, and landscape.
In 1962, Wesselmann had his first solo show at Tanager Gallery, New York, and was also included in Recent Paintings U.S.A.: The Figure at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Over his career, the artist continued to experiment with his materials, creating free standing shaped canvases, which showed small intimate objects on a grand scale during the 1970's, and metal works that resembled painted gestural brushstrokes through the 1980's and 90's. He died December 17, 2004 in New York.
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington DC
Tate Modern, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2008 JGM.Galerie, Dessins, gouaches, maquettes et peintures
2007 Tom Wesselmann: Drop-Out, Maxwell Davidson Gallery New York, NY
Tom Wesselmann, The Columns Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Tom Wesselmann: Nudes, The Andipa Gallery, London (solo)
2004 Tom Wesselmann: Works on Paper: Retrospective 1960-2004, Maxwell Davidson Gallery New York, NY
Marcel Strouk / Galerie Rive Gauche (solo)
2000 Tom Wesselmann: Blue Nudes, Joesph Helman Gallery New York, NY
Tom Wesselmann, JGM Galerie Paris, France
1999 Tom Wesselmann: Small Survey: Small Scale, Maxwell Davidson Gallery NYC
1998 Wetterling Gallery Stockholm, Sweden
1997 Tom Wesselmann, Galerie Benden Klimczak Viersen, Germany
1996 Tom Wesselmann Lasers and Lithos, Maxwell Davidson Gallery New York, NY
1995 Tom Wesselmann, Sidney Janis Gallery New York, NY
1994 Tom Wesselmann: Recent Works, Galerie Beatrice Wassermann Munich, Germany
1993 Tom Wesselmann: New Cut Outs and Drawings, Wassermann Galerie Munich, Germany
1992 Tom Wesselmann, Sidney Janis Gallery New York, NY
1991 Galerie Tokoro Tokyo, Japan
1985 Sidney Janis Gallery New York, NY
1984 Modernism San Fransisco, CA
1983 Sidney Janis Gallery New York, NY
1982 Recent Work by Tom Wesselmann, Sidney Janis Gallery New York
1981 Hokin Gallery Miami, FL
1980 New Sculpture & Paintings by Tom Wesselman, Sidney Janis Gallery New York
1979 Galerie Serge di Bloe Brussels
1979 Ehrlich Gallery New York
1978 Tom Wesselmann: Graphics 1964-77, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA
1976 Sidney Janis Gallery New York
1967 Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France
Dayton's Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
The Galleria Giò Marconi, Milan, Italy
1966 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. NY
1962 Green Gallery, New York, NY
1961 Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
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