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Bedroom Painting #25
Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931–2004)
Title
Bedroom Painting #25
Artist
Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931–2004)
Date
1967–71
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
96 1/4 × 120 1/4 in. (244.5 × 305.4 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Museum purchase with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and contributions from the Blumkin Foundation, the Giffford Foundation, N. Phillips Dodge, and Robert Kutak
Object Number
1982.62
On View
On view
Copyright
© Tom Wesselmann / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Provenance
Purchased from Sidney Janis Gallery by Kenneth Åberg, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1973;
Gunter Sachs (probably 1932–2011), St. Tropez, France.
Purchased from Sotheby’s, New York, May, 4, 1982, lot 79, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.
Exhibition History
1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 25–March 19, 1972, no 126.
American Painting and Sculpture, 70th Annual, Art Institute of Chicago, June 24–August 20, 1972, no. 70.
Exhibition of Recent Paintings By Tom Wesselmann, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, November 8–December 2, 1972, no. 6.
Mostly X-L, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, July 1–August 28, 1983.
Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, August 14–September 26, 1993.
American Art from the Collection of Joslyn Art Museum, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, June 17, 2022–September 3, 2023.Published References
1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972), 13.
Seventieth American Exhibition, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1972), 47, (repro.).
Slim Stealingworth [Tom Wesselmann], Tom Wesselmann (New York: Abbeville Press, 1980), 186, (repro.).
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European &American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 219–20, 221, (repro.).
