Artist

Tom Wesselmann

born Cincinnati, OH 1931-died New York City 2004
Born
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Died
New York, New York, United States
Active in
  • New York, New York, United States

Works by this artist (2 items)

Robert Havell, Jr., Panoramic View of New York, 1844, hand-colored aquatint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of International Business Machines Corporation, 1966.48.77
Panoramic View of New York
Artist
Date1844
hand-colored aquatint on paper
Not on view
John James Audubon, Robert Havell, Jr., Frigate Pelican, from the book Birds of America, 1835, hand-colored engraving and aquatint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Robert Tyler Davis Memorial Fund, 1980.91
Frigate Pelican, from the book Birds of America
Artist
Date1835
hand-colored engraving and aquatint on paper
Not on view

Exhibitions

Media - 1966.29.23 - SAAM-1966.29.23_1 - 2177
Pop Art Prints
March 21, 2014–August 31, 2014
Smithsonian American Art Museum
In the 1950s and 1960s, pop art offered a stark contrast to abstract expressionism, then the dominant movement in American art.

Related Books

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Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection
In eighty-eight striking paintings and sculptures, Crosscurrents captures modernism as it moved from early abstractions by O’Keeffe, to Picasso and Pollock in midcentury, to pop riffs on contemporary culture by Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud, and Tom Wesselmann—all illustrating the complexity and energy of a distinctly American modernism.