Tom Wesselmann, Bedroom Painting #7 (detail), Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976
If you're a modern and contemporary art lover, you know what a special find this is! A framed offset lithograph poster featuring Tom Wesselmann's 'Bedroom painting #7,' which was exhibited at the Philadephia Museum of Art in 1976. The exhibition, titled 'International Pop', explored the global emergence of Pop Art in the 1960s and early 1970s. Organized by the Walker Art Center, it featured 120 works by influential artists from 20 countries, including Wesselmann, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Ed Ruscha. Pop Art was a movement that was both celebratory and critical, and that reimagined art's relationship to societies in flux.
Tom Wesselmann, 'Bedroom painting #7 (detail)'. Offset lithograph poster. Edition of 500 (unnumbered). Designed by Del Valle. Published by the Philadephia Museum of Art. 1976.
TOM WESSELMANN: (b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1931 - 2004) Wesselmann was an American artist - knon for his work in painting, collage, sculpture, assemblage, and printmaking - associated with the Pop Art movement. He studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and Cooper Union in New York. After graduation, Wesselmann became one of the founding members of the Judson Gallery, along with Marc Ratliff and Jim Dine. He kept company with art world contemporaries, such as Alex Katz (Tanager Gallery), Richard Bellamy (Green Gallery), Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Ivan Karp (Leo Castelli Gallery). He went on to exhibit at The Sidney Janis Gallery and Bianchini Gallery in New York, among others.
His Great American Nude series, which he begun in 1961, brought him his first recognition in the art world. He made an aesthetic use of everyday objects, which he clarified was not a criticism of them as consumer objects. Rather, he concentrated on the juxtapositions of different elements and depictions. Throughout the mid-to-late 60s, Wesselman worked on the Bedroom Painting series, in which he began to concentrate on details of the human figure such as hands, feet, and breasts, surrounded by flowers and objects. This new series shifted the focus and scale of objects around a nude. Though oftentimes small in relation to the nude, they become major, even dominant, elements when the central element is a body part. In the 70s, he focused on making panels that formed larger-than-life, dimensional freestanding paintings.
Throughout the 80s and 90s, Wesselmann began to work with the new medium of steel and aluminum, enabling him to redevelop the theme of the nude and its composition. In the last ten years of his life, he focused on more abstract works that displayed firmer lines and a chromatic range that favored primary colors. These new works, influenced by Mondrian and Matisse, diminished the border between Wesselmann's figurative and abstract styles. He passed away in 2004. Wesselmann's work has been collected by major institutions around the country, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modem Art, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, and the Margulies Collection, among many others.
DIMENSIONS: 22 W x 32 H x 2 D inches
CONDITION: In original vintage condition, with wear commensurate of age and use. Has not been examined outside of frame. Original silver metal frame. Reframing recommended. Please note: Glass will be removed before this piece can ship nationally. Local buyers can contact us for reframing needs.
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