COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0000140
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aahi0000140
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Work Title (display):
Bathtub No. 3
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1963
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931-2004)
Work Creator gender:
male
work_creator_or_agent_gender
male
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false
Work Creator notes (display):
American painter, sculptor and printmaker. He planned to become a cartoonist until his final year at the Cooper Union in New York, where he studied from 1956 to 1959 and was encouraged to become a painter. The powerful work of Willem de Kooning provided both inspiration and inhibition as he attempted to find a new direction centred around a tangible subject. Choosing the figure he began to make small collages of torn paper and found materials, as in the Little Great American Nudes of 19612; these culminated in large, aggressive compositions such as Great American Nude #3 (1961; Washington, DC, Hirshhorn). These and giant still-lifes composed of common household objects and collage elements culled from popular advertising images, such as Still Life #20 (1962; Buffalo, NY, Albright-Knox A.G.), brought him fame and notoriety as a founder of American Pop art. In the late 1960s an increasingly dominant eroticism emerged in works such as Bedroom Painting #13 (1969; Berlin, Neue N.G.), with its more literal but still intense colours and tight, formal composition. The pictorial elements, exaggerated in their arabesque forms and arbitrary colouring, became significantly larger in scale in his works of the 1970s, such as a series of Smoker mouths; enormous, partially free-standing still-lifes moved into sculptural space, and finally became discrete sculptures of sheet metal. In the 1980s he returned to works for the wall with cut-out steel or aluminium drawings such as Viviènne Doodle (3D) (1986; see 1987 exh. cat., no. 1), which replicate his familiar, graceful line in enamel on cut-out metal. He was also an innovative printmaker, adapting his imagery to lithographs, screenprints, aquatints and multiples in relief. An important retrospective of his work was held in Japan in 19934. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2006-07-27)
Work Style Period:
Pop
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Pop
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
20th century
work_styleperiod
20th century
Work Style Period
false
Work Subject:
women (female humans)
subject
women (female humans)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
bathrooms
subject
bathrooms
Work Subject
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Work Subject:
bathing (hygienic activity)
subject
bathing (hygienic activity)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
gaze (psychoanalytical concept)
subject
gaze (psychoanalytical concept)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
nudes (representations)
subject
nudes (representations)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
sexuality
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sexuality
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
oil paintings
work_type
oil paintings
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false
Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
oil on canvas and plastic
Work Measurements (display):
213 cm (H) x 270 cm (W)
Work Inscription (display):
Signed; Dated
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Museum Ludwig
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid:
ML 1163
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid type:
accession
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Cologne, Germany
Image Rights (display):
© Ronald Wiedenhoeft. Licensed for educational use via Scholars Resource: Saskia, Ltd.
Image Rights license agreement:
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Work Rights (display):
© Tom Wesselmann
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
Collection info and contact:
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