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RJR Collection |
Tom Wesselman
American, born 1931
Smoker,
1976
serigraph
16 ½” x 16 ½”
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Fame
and notoriety have followed pioneer Pop artist Tom Wesselman,
at first because of the erotic imagery of his Great American
Nudes of the 1960s and continuing with his series of Smoker
mouths
in the 1970s, enormous, partially free standing still-lifes moved
into sculptural space.
His art has mocked the American taste for sex and consumer goods
and celebrated the freedom and prosperity that made them possible.
An innovative printmaker, Wesselman adapted
his Pop imagery to a variety of printmaking medium. The Wake Forest silkscreen print,
Smoke, is interesting for its intense colors and fragmented images.
Formerly in the collections of RJR Industries, the print was given
to Wake Forest when the company moved its corporate headquarters
from Winston-Salem to Atlanta.
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