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Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Smoker
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Held by the artist.

Smoker

Artist/Maker (United States, 1931-2004)
Date1976
Mediumscreen print
DimensionsSheet: 25 x 18 3/8 in. (63.5 x 46.7 cm)
Mat: 33 x 26 1/2 in. (83.8 x 67.3 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of Kenneth and Helyne Treister
Terms
    Object number94.0037.08.11
    DescriptionThe mouth in Smoker, from the series An American Portrait 1776-1976: Look Out Beyond and See, sexually provocative and iconically isolated, typifies the artist's fetishistic exploration of the female body, a subject Wesselmann has not tired of to this day. The print was made for an artists' portfolio commemorating the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976. Perhaps Wesselmann is wryly commenting on America's obsessive smoking habit, developed - to the detriment of the entire population - over the last two hundred years.
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