Tom Wesselmann at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Mitchell-Innes & Nash announces the first major painting retrospective of Tom Wesselmann in New York since the artist’s death in 2004. Organized in partnership with the Tom Wesselmann Estate, the exhibition examines Wesselmann’s role as the great innovator of the American Pop generation and will include a dozen significant works spanning the artist’s career from 1961-2004. The exhibition will be on view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash from April 21 through May 28, 2016.
Tom Wesselmann is one of the leading figures of Pop Art.  He is best known for his career-spanning series, “Great American Nude,” which featured female figures in intensely saturated interiors. Wesselmann used collage, assemblage and shaped canvases to usher in a new vocabulary of painting.