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William Wegman (American, b.1943)

LOT ID: 13371

Dusted, 1988

Other, screenprint

30 х 24 in. cm.

Signed, Signed, dated, and numbered, recto

Edition 47/96

Lot description

William Wegman, Dusted, 1988. Screenprint, 30 x 24 inches, 76.2 x 61 cm (paper); 37.75 x 32 inches, 95.9 x 81.3 cm (frame). Edition 47/96. Signed, dated, and numbered, recto.

William Wegman was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1943. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, in 1965 with a BFA in painting, then enrolled in the Masters painting and printmaking program at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, receiving an MFA in 1967. After teaching at various universities, Wegman’s interests in areas beyond painting ultimately led him to photography and the infant medium of video. While living in Long Beach, California, Wegman acquired Man Ray, the dog with whom he began a fruitful twelve-year collaboration. Man Ray became a central figure in Wegman’s photography and videos, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence. In 1972, Wegman and Man Ray moved to New York. In 1986, a new dog, Fay Ray, came into Wegman’s life, and soon thereafter another famous collaboration began, marked by Wegman’s use of the Polaroid 20 x 24 camera. With the birth of Fay’s litter in 1989 and her daughter’s litter in 1995, Wegman’s cast grew. His photographs, videos, paintings, and drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. A retrospective of his work traveled to museums throughout Europe and the United States, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His most recent exhibitions have gone to Japan, Sweden, and the Orange County Museum of Art in California. Wegman lives in New York and Maine.[pbs]

Biography & Links
William Wegman Biography

1943	Born in Holyoke, MA

1961-1965	B.F.A. in Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1965-1967	M.F.A. in Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

1967-1969	Instructor at University of Wisconsin, Waukesha, WI and Madison, WI

1970-1971	Instructor at University of California, Long Beach, CA

1975	Recipient, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

1979	Recipient, Creative Artists Public Service Grant (Video)

1982	Recipient, National Endowment for the Arts Grant (Photography)

1999	Recipient, New York Foundation for the Arts Honor, New York, NY Recipient, Bailey House Key Award

	Lives and works in New York, NY
Selected Exhibitions

1995	William Wegman: Photographs, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (solo) Photographs, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY

1996	William Wegman: Fay's Fairy Tales, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada (solo) The Art Embodied, Musee de Marseilles, Marseilles, France Picture This, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1997	Finders/Keepers, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX William Wegman. Dessins/Drawings: 1973-1997, F.R.A.C. Limousin, Limoges, France (solo) Polaroids and Other Photographs, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany

1998	Wild Things: Artist Views of the Animal World, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999	William Wegman: Fashion Photographs, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (solo) Attention, Art: Concept, Paris, France

2000	William Wegman, The Art of Narrative, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX (solo) William Wegman: Drawing, Video, Painting, The MAC Dallas, TX (solo)

2001	William Wegman: Fashion Photographs, University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA (solo) William Wegman: Early Works, Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI William Wegman, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium William Wegman: Serie La Iglesia, Galeria De Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain (solo)

2002	William Wegman: Indian in the Refrigerator and Other Printed Works, Printed Matter, New York, NY William Wegman: Recent Work, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX (solo) William Wegman, Roman Zenner, Stuttgart, Germany (catalogue) (solo) William Wegman in the 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, Creative Time and Panasonic, New York, NY (solo) William Wegman: Fashion Photographs and More: Works on Paper and Video, 1970 to 2001, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada William Wegman: Early Video/Recent Video, New Drawings/Earlier Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX and Gorney, Bravin & Lee, New York, NY (solo) Photo + Drawing + Video = William Wegman, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (solo) William Wegman, Savage, Portland, OR (solo)

2003	William Wegman, Charlotte Lund Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden William Wegman, Centro Jose Guerrero, Diputacion de Granada, Spain (catalogue) (solo) William Wegman, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

2004	Keys to the Koop: Humor and Satire in Contemporary Printmaking, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID The Last Picture Show, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland ANIMAUX: Von Tieren und Menschen, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfaffikon, Switzerland 100 Artists See God, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England From a Collection, For a Collection, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Duesseldorf, Germany Photography at Colby, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME Dog Days of Summer, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA Recent Polaroids, Galerie Bugdahn and Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo) William Wegman, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX (solo) William Wegman: Recent Polaroids, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA (solo)

2005	Man's Best Friend: Photographs and Videos, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo) Strange but True, Hudson Guild, New York, NY (solo) De la comtesse De Castiglione a Cindy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris, France Fur, Feathers And Family: Our Relationship With Animals, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL New at the Neuberger: Recent Acquisitions, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY William Wegman, Galerie Stephen Hoffman, Munich, Germany Atelier Adamson: David Adamson and his friends, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY 50 Jahre: Years documenta 1955-2005, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany Keys to the Koop: Humor and Satire in Contemporary Printmaking, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA History of Disappearance, BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England 100 Artists See God, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA

2006	William Wegman, Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC (solo) William Wegman, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY (solo) New & Improved (1974-2006), Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (solo) William Wegman, Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA (solo) William Wegman: Black and White Photographs, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo) Summer Exhibition, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY Good Vibrations: Le arti visive e il Rock, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy A Curator's Eye: The Visual Legacy of Robert A. Sobieszek, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Galerie mit Bleistift Fischer: Papierarbeiten aus den 60er und 70er Jahren, Konrad Fischer Galerie GmbH, Dusseldorf, Germany Animal Series, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI History of disappearance: 30th anniversario della Franklin Furnace, Neon, La fabbrica del vapore, Milan, Italy William Wegman: Funney/Strange, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY William Wegman: New & Improved, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Transmediale.06: Smile Maschines, AKADEMIE DER KUNSTE, Berlin, Germany

2007	William Wegman: New Paintings, Robilant and Voena, London, England (solo) Wegman: Outdoors, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY (solo) William Wegman, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea (solo) William Wegman, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo) William Wegman: C-prints, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY (solo) William Wegman: Around the Park, The Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY (solo) William Wegman and No Dogs, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo) Busy Going Crazy, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France Why Look at Animals?, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY The Shadow, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy

2008	William Wegman: Paintings, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, MA (solo) William Wegman: Photographs, Maine Media Workshop, Rockport, MA, USA (solo) William Wegman: FAY, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (solo) William Wegman, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo) East Coast Perspectives, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA

2009	William Wegman: Dogs on Rocks in the Woods at the Seaside, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo) William Wegman: Fay, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (solo)

2010	William Wegman: Fay, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, CA (solo) William Wegman: Inside \| Outside, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)

Literature and Catalogue Raisoneé
Literature and Catalogue Raisoneé
Publication:

Simon, Joan, 1949- . William Wegman : funney/strange / Joan Simon. New Haven : Yale University Press ; Andover, Mass. : In association with the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, c2006. Wegman, William. William Wegman polaroids / William Wegman. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2002. Wegman, William. Strange but true : William Wegman, October 31-December 24, 1998, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art. Boston : Massachusetts College of Art, c1998. Schjeldahl, Peter. William Wegman / essay by Peter Schjeldahl. México : Museo de Monterrey, 1993. Wegman, William. Photographic works 1969-1976 = L’oeuvre photographique / William Wegman ; [text, William Wegman, Frédéric Paul]. 2nd ed. Limoges : Fonds régional d’art contemporain Limousin ; New York : DAP/Distributed Art Publishers, [distributor], 1993. Wegman, William. William Wegman : paintings, drawings, photographs, videotapes / edited by Martin Kunz ; essays by Martin Kunz ... [et al.] ; interview with William Wegman by David Ross. New York : Abrams, 1990. Wegman, William. William Wegman : 1 October-14 November 1982 / Wake Forest University, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina School of the Arts, Artist-in-Residence Program ; sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation ; [catalog compiled by Vicki Kopf]. Winston-Salem, N.C. (750 Marguerite Dr., Winston-Salem 27106) : The Center, 1982. Wegman, William. Man’s best friend / photographs and drawings by William Wegman ; introduction by Laurance Wieder. New York : H.N. Abrams, 1982. Lyons, Lisa. Wegman’s world : 5 December 1982 to 16 January 1983, Walker Art Center / Lisa Lyons, Kim Levin. [Minneapolis] : The Center, c1982.
Condition Report
Condition Report
Current lot doesn't have any damage.
History and Provenance
History and Provenance
Provenance:
Brooklyn Academy of Music,
Private Collection, Los Angeles
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