Idelle Lois Weber (born Tessie Pasternack; March 12, 1932 – March 23, 2020) was an American artist most closely aligned with the Pop art and

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movements.

Early life

Weber was born in

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, Illinois on March 12, 1932 as Tessie Pasternack. Adopted as an infant by Julius Earl and Minnie (née Wallach) Feinberg, she lived in

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until the age of eight, with a businessman father and a mother devoted to her cultural development. Early childhood gifts of a Brownie camera and a large magnifying glass were meaningful. She was curious and creative as a child. Her mother took her on weekly visits to the Art Institute of Chicago, her favorite works in the collection being those by Rembrandt,

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, and the

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. She also spent a lot of time copying her Brenda Starr and Dick Tracy comic books. At the age of eight, Weber's family relocated to

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in an effort to treat her severe

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. The museum scene there was not as robust as in

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, but she found plenty to support her passion for art. She would ride her bicycle to

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' gallery for critiques on her own artwork. She was exposed to the work of modern masters

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, Rodin, and

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. Her high school dissertation looked at the seemingly disparate work of

and

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. Receiving a full tuition, she attended Scripps College in Claremont, California. Briefly, Weber attended the Aspen Design Conference, which was deeply influential to her developing artistic style, introducing a graphic and bold aesthetic. She went on to study at

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, with William Brice, Frederick S. Wight, and

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. She received a BA in 1954 and an MA in 1955. After school she shared a studio with Craig Kauffman and

Walter Hopps Walter "Chico" Hopps (May 3, 1932 – March 20, 2005) was an American museum director, gallerist, and curator of contemporary art. Hopps helped bring Los Angeles post-war artists to prominence during the 1960s, and later went on to redefine pract ...

and the three of them became engaged with images of New York School abstraction.

Career

In 1956, Weber's work ''Observation of Sound'', a charcoal work of the previous year, was selected from 5,000 entries by curator William S. Lieberman for inclusion in the

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's show ''Recent Drawings USA''. She showed under her unmarried name, Feinberg. In light of this success, Weber moved to New York to work and to secure a gallery affiliation.

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, then curator at MoMA, arranged for her to meet art historian

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, who admired Weber's work but stated that he did not include women painters in his books.Idelle Weber: Chronology
" ''Artist Works Catalogue'', artnet. Charles Allen, owner of the Allen Gallery, similarly indicated that he did not show women artists. Weber attended an illustration and design class taught by

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at the

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, but when she asked

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if she could audit his class at Hunter College, he responded that married women with children were not permitted to audit classes because they would not continue painting. Weber had married earlier that year. In 1958, her son was born, followed by a daughter in 1964, yet she continued painting. She attended classes at the Brooklyn Museum and studied under

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at the

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, rented a studio in Brooklyn Heights, and showed her work in several group exhibitions. Finally, Weber signed with

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in 1962. Her first solo show was there in January 1963 and featured her silhouette paintings. The Albright-Knox Gallery purchased
Reflection
' (1962) from that show. She had two solo exhibitions at Bertha Schaefer Gallery. (Weber would be represented later by a string of galleries, including Hundred Acres, OK Harris, Schmidt-Bingham, and Jean Albano.) It was also around this time that she came to know Roy Lichtenstein,

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, and other Pop artists through her contacts at the Castelli Gallery. She became particularly close with

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, Lucas Samaras,

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, and

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. During the early 1960s, Weber's work mainly consisted of

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paintings against brightly colored, checkerboard backgrounds. Her preferred subjects were anonymous figures engaged in everyday activities, such as a group of friends playing cards (''Hearts'', 1964), or business men riding escalators (''Munchkins I, II, & III'', 1964). ''Munchkins'' was the largest work she ever created; it was painted on three canvases butted together. She painted each canvas in a different room in her small apartment. She began making large-scale

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s in 1965. ''Jumprope Lady'' was her first successful attempt at transposing her silhouette paintings into three-dimensions. In the late 1960s, Weber switched from her early Pop aesthetic to

techniques. Working from photographs and slides of New York City, she made highly detailed paintings of fruit-stands (''Bluebird'', 1972), trash and litter (''Heineken'', 1976), which would become her dominant themes over the next several years. Weber became a leading member of the Photorealist movement and formed friendships with

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, Robert Cottingham,

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, John DeAndrea,

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, and

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, among others. Weber taught graduate drawing and painting at

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in the 1970s and would later teach art at

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, the Art Barge in

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, NY and the

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, Australia, where she was also artist-in-residence. While teaching at Harvard in the 1990s, Weber began working in monotypes and created a series of small black and white works inspired by television coverage of the

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. Moving from small to large scale, the experience working in monotype resulted in a dramatic change in her painting style. A severe allergy to most

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s forced her to stop working with

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in 1995. In 2000, she began working in collage, culminating in a major installation, ''Head Room'', at the Contemporary Gallery at the

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. Weber continued to live and work in New York City. She died in Los Angeles on March 23, 2020 at the age of 88.

Acquisition of Munchkin I, II, III

In 2013, the Chrysler Museum of Art acquired her painting,
Munchkins, I, II, & III
' (1964), showing silhouetted business men riding the escalators of the

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, which had been completed in New York the year before. Online art publication Blouin ArtInfo announced the acquisition with the headline, "Chrysler Museum Acquires Original "Mad Men" Painting by Neglected Pop Artist Idelle Weber". The story also reported that the work was one of three by Weber acquired by the museum at that time. The other two paintings,
High Ceiling—You Won’t Get This
' and
Mr. Chrysler
' also reference the gender stereotypes of the American workplace in the 1960s. The titular Mr. Chrysler made the work all the more appropriate for that museum's collection. The purchase occurred at a time that Weber was resurfacing with renewed critical interest.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*1963, 1964 Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY. *1973, 1975, 1977 Hundred Acres Gallery, New York, NY. *1979, 1982 OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY. *1984 Siegel Contemporary Art, New York, NY. *1985, 1987 Ruth Siegel Ltd. New York, NY *1986

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, Chicago, IL. *1987 Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC. *1994, 1996, 1998 Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, New York, NY. *1994 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. *1995

, Melbourne University, Australia. *1998 Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda. *2004

, Roslyn Harbor, NY. *2013

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, New York, NY. *2018 Hollis Taggart, New York, NY.

Group exhibitions

*1956 "Recent Drawings, U.S.A."—

, New York, NY. *1957 "New Talent"—'' Art in America'' and

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*1958 "Group Show"— Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. *1961 "Modern American Drawings"—

, New York, NY.

*1963 "Pop Goes the Easel"—

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, TX. *1963 "Pop Art U.S.A."—Oakland Museum and California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA. *1964 "Contemporary Drawings"—

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, New York, NY. *1964 "The Box Show"—Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. *1965 "The New American Realism"—

Worcester Art Museum The Worcester Art Museum, also known by its acronym WAM, houses over 38,000 works of art dating from antiquity to the present day and representing cultures from all over the world. WAM opened in 1898 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and ranks among th ...

, Worcester, MA. *1965 "Pop Art and the American Tradition"—

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, Milwaukee, WI. *1966 "Contemporary American Figure Painters"—

Wadsworth Atheneum The Wadsworth Atheneum is an art museum in Hartford, Connecticut. The Wadsworth is noted for its collections of European Baroque art, ancient Egyptian and Classical bronzes, French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School lands ...

, Hartford, CT. *1967 "International Young Artists Exhibition: U.S.A. - Japan"—Japanese Cultural Forum, Tokyo, Japan. *1975 "Twenty-five Stills"—

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. New York, NY. *1976 "Painting and Sculpture Today"—

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, Indianapolis, IN. *1978 "Women Artists '78,"

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, New York, NY *1980 "American Realism in the Industrial Age"—

Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, located in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on the city's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian ...

, Cleveland, OH. *1990 "Issues in Post-Modernism"—

Yale University Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ...

, New Haven, CT. *1992 "Six Takes on Photorealism"—

at Champion, Stamford, CT. *2003 "Challenging Tradition: Women of the Academy, 1826-2003"—

National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the f ...

, New York, NY. *2008 "Shock of the Real: Photorealism Revisited"—

Boca Raton Museum of Art Founded by artists, the Boca Raton Museum of Art was established in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton. The organization has grown to encompass an Art School, Guild, Store, and Museum with permanent collections of contemporary art, photography, ...

, Boca Raton, FL. *2010 "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968"— University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

*2018 "Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s"–

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, Buffalo, NY.

Selected public collections

, Buffalo, NY *

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, Little Rock, AR * Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL *

Boise Art Museum The Boise Art Museum (BAM) is located at 670 Julia Davis Drive in Boise, Idaho, and is part of a series of public museums and cultural attractions in Julia Davis Park. It is the permanent home of a growing collection of contemporary realism, mod ...

, Boise, ID * Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY * Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA *

Delaware Art Museum The Delaware Art Museum is an art museum located on the Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington, Delaware, which holds a collection of more than 12,000 objects. The museum was founded in 1912 as the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts in honor of the artis ...

, Wilmington, DE *

Des Moines Art Center The Des Moines Art Center is an art museum with an extensive collection of paintings, sculpture, modern art and mixed media. It was established in 1948 in Des Moines, Iowa. History The Art Center traces its roots to 1916, when the Des Moines A ...

, Des Moines, IA *

Fogg Art Museum The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four research ...

, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA * Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL (loan) *

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, University of Illinois, Champaign, Urbana, IL *

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(LACMA), Los Angeles, CA *

McNay Art Museum The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 in San Antonio, is the first modern art museum in the U.S. state of Texas. The museum was created by Marion Koogler McNay's original bequest of most of her fortune, her important art collection and her 24-room ...

, San Antonio, TX *

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, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia * Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY *

The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

, New York, NY *

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, Washington, DC *

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, Kansas City, MO * New York Public Library, New York, NY *

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, San Francisco, CA * Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA *Santa Fe Art Foundation, Santa Fe, NM *

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, Tacoma, WA *

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, Richmond, VA *

, New York, NY *

, New Haven, CT

Selected bibliography

Books

*Battcock, Gregory. ''Super Realism: A Critical Anthology''. E.P. Dutton & Company. New York, New York. 1975. *Linday, Christine. ''Surrealist Painting and Sculpture''. William Morrow. New York, New York. 1980. *Meisel, Louis and Helene Zucker Seeman. ''Photorealism''. Harry N. Abrams. New York, New York. 1980. *Rubenstein, Charlotte S. ''American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to Present''. G.K. Hall. Chicago, Illinois. 1982. *Battcock, Gregory, ed. ''The American Photorealists: An Anthology''. Fischer Fine Arts, Ltd. London, United Kingdom, 1983. *Finch, Christopher. ''American Watercolors''. Abbeville Press. New York, New York, 1986. *Baur, John I. H. ''Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection''. National Academy of Design. New York, New York, 1987. *Ward, John. ''American Realists Painting 1945-1960''. UMI Press. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1989. *Ragans, Rosalyn. ''Art Connections''. SRA-McGraw/Hill. Columbus, Ohio, 1997. *New, Jennifer. ''Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art''. Princeton Architectural Press. New York, New York, 2005. *Sachs, Sid.
Idelle Weber: The Pop Years
.

. New York, New York, 2013.

Articles & reviews

*"New Talent in the U.S.A.," ''Art in America'', March 1957. *"Pop," ''Das Kunstwerk'' vol. 17, No.10, 1964. *"Idelle Weber," ''New York Herald Tribune'', May 30, 1964. *Dore Ashton. "New York Commentary," ''Studio International'' no. 856, April, 1965, p. 168. *"Idelle Weber," ''Arts Magazine'', September, 1975. *Linda Chase. "Photorealism: Post Modernist Illusionism," ''Art International'', March/April 1976. *John Perreault. "Photo Shock," ''

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'', January 22, 1976. *Lorraine Gilligan. "Idelle Weber," ''Womanart'' no. 1, Fall 1977, p. XX. *Ellen Lubell. "Idelle Weber," ''Arts Magazine'', September 1977. *William Zimmer. "Idelle Weber," ''Arts Magazine'', June 1979. *William Zimmer. "Idelle Weber," ''Arts Magazine'', October 1982, p. 19. *William Zimmer. "Idelle Weber," ''Arts Magazine'', October 1983, p. 2. *"Idelle Weber at O.K. Harris," ''Art in America'', February 1983, pp. 132–3. *

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