Tom Wesselmann (February 23, 1931, Cincinnati - December 17, 2004) was an American pop artist who specialized in found art collages. Wesselmann's series Great American Nude (begun 1961) first brought him to the attention of the art world. The series incorporated representational images with an accordingly patriotic theme, such as American landscape photos and portraits of founding fathers.
He worked constantly on the Bedroom Painting series, in which elements of the Great American Nude, Still Lifes and Seascapes were juxtaposed. With these works Wesselmann began to concentrate on a few details of the figure such as hands, feet, and breasts, surrounded by flowers and objects. The Bedroom Paintings shifted the focus and scale of the attendant objects around a nude; these objects are small in relation to the nude, but become major, even dominant elements when the central element is a body part.
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