John Wesley was an American painter, known for idiosyncratic figurative works of eros and humor, rendered in a precise, hard-edged, deadpan style. Wesley's art largely remained true to artistic premises that he established in the 1960s: a comic-strip style of flat shapes, delicate black outline, a limited matte palette of saturated colors, and elegant, pared-down compositions. His characteristic subjects included cavorting nymphs, nudes, infants and animals, pastoral and historical scenes, and 1950s comic strip characters in humorously blasphemous, ambiguous scenarios of forbidden desire, rage or despair.
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Works in Collection
15 works
11 Pop Artists
Allan D'Arcangelo
1966
Batter Up
John Wesley
1965
Bird Lady from 11 Pop Artists, Volume II
John Wesley
1965, published 1966
Dream of Unicorns from 11 Pop Artists, Volume III
John Wesley
1965, published 1966
Guardian for a Small Harem - Lamp
John Wesley
1964
Maiden from 11 Pop Artists, Volume I
John Wesley
1965, published 1966
Paris Review
John Wesley
1967
Seasons of War and Laughter
John Wesley
1969
Squirrels
John Wesley
1964
Suffragattes
John Wesley
1968
U.S. Army Recruiting Poster
John Wesley
1970
U.S. Army Recruiting Poster
John Wesley
1970
Untitled (Dog)
John Wesley
1965-66
Untitled (study for 'Popeye')
John Wesley
1973
Virginia Woolf and the Dormouse
John Wesley
1964