SIGNED Tom Wesselmann Early Years Collages 1959 1962 PB

Description: Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Tom Wesselmann The Early Years Collages 1959-1962 SIGNED Tom Wesselmann California State University, Long Beach, California. 1974. Softcover. First edition. Signed. Briefly inscribed and dated by Tom Wesselmann. This is a catalogue from an exhibition organized by the Art Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, November 10-December 8, 1974 : Trisolini Gallery of Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, January 6-January 27, 1975 : Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, February 22-March 20, 1975. Acceptable. Wraps rubbed and creased, three inch chip on front lower corner, entire book is slightly rippled with evidence of staining most noticeably to the text but visible throughout and confined mostly to the edges. Binding a little loose. The paintings are still quite nice. Very scarce signed. Tom Wesselmann was born in 1931 at Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied psychology at the University of Cincinnati and went afterwards to the Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1955-56. From 1956 to 1959 he studied under Nicolas Marsicano at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, New York. First he was painting in the style of Abstract Expressionism, influenced by Willem de Kooning. In 1959 he turned to experimenting with small, abstract collages. In 1960 he changed to painting objects and landscapes. He had his first one-man exhibition at the Tanager Gallery, New York, in 1961. In 1962 he participated in the exhibition The Figure at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 1963 he was included in Pop Goes the East at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and in 1965 in the Young America 1965 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York. He was represented at the Sao Paulo Biennale, 1967, and at the Documenta IV and VI, Kassel, in 1968 and 1977 respectively. His exhibition Early Still-Lifes 1962-1964 began its tour of the USA at Balboa, California, in 1970. In 1974 his exhibition The Early Years: Collages 1959-62 toured the USA and this is the book from that exhibit. In the same year he was included in the exhibition American Pop Art, Whitney Museum, New York, and in Illusions of Reality at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, in 1976. His work started with brash collages, assemblages and environments using commonplace commodity articles and modeled on advertising catalogs - usually combined with the exhibitionistic pose of a female body. In the course of his work on the series Great American Nudes he enlarged the format of his canvasses. He passed away on December 17, 2004. But we will remember him as the last Godfather of the popart scene.

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