ARTISTS  |  NEWS  |  INVENTORY  |  CONTACT   Tom Wesselmann Individual Work: A founding figure of the Pop Art movement, Tom Wesselman's (1931-2004) best known works are his Great American Nude series of flat billboard-esque compositions of abstracted female nudes, faceless except their ruby-colored lips. Wesselmann's still-life images of collaged contemporary commodities, like the cigarette, are similarly stripped of detail. Like his nude figures, the slick rendering of these images parody any sense of actual attraction. Ironically Wesselmann's cool graphic style becomes the most alluring aspect of the image.   Throughout his career, Wesselmann showed at the Sidney Janis Gallery, the leading exhibitor and dealer of Pop Art. In 1994 a comprehensive retrospective of his work took place at the Kunsthalle in Tubingen. Wesselmann's works are in major American museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Worcester Art Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Cincinnati Art Museum.