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Currently not on view
Study for Still Life, #22,
1962
Tom Wesselmann, 1931–2004; born Cincinnati, OH; died New York, NY; active New York
x1971-6
A key figure in the Pop art movement, Wesselmann was fascinated by the rituals and paraphernalia of domesticity, as seen in the drawing here. References to eating and consumption—as well as images of food, especially packaged food, and modern appliances—appear frequently in his work as symbols of postwar prosperity and commodity culture. This drawing is a study for a mixed-media work. Wesselmann’s rendering of the boy at the left, depicted in motion over time, was inspired by an advertisement the artist saw in the subway; it suggests the impact of cinema and time-based media on his work and on postwar culture as a whole.
Information
Title
Study for Still Life, #22
Dates
1962
Maker
Medium
Charcoal with black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 91.1 x 121 cm (35 7/8 x 47 5/8 in.)
frame: 111.8 x 142.2 x 3.6 cm (44 x 56 x 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
x1971-6
Signatures
Signed and dated in charcoal, top center: Wesselmann 62
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Green Gallery, New York;
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Hugh M. Davies, "Pop prints: new acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 31, 2 (1972): p. 24-29.
, fig. 4, p. 29; p. 28 (illus.) -
"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1971," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 31 no. 1 (1972): p. 20-32.
, p. 24 - John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 256, cat. no. 66; p. 257 (illus.); p. 308, checklist no. 267
- Johanna Burton et al., Pop art: contemporary perspectives, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT: distributed by Yale University Press, 2007), p. 143 (color illus.)
- Tom Wesselmann: draws, (New York: Haunch of Venison, 2009).
