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William Wegman

B. United States, 1943

The Works

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1

William Wegman

Place Setting with all Forks

1973

Pencil on paper

2

William Wegman

What

1975

Ink and watercolour on paper

3

William Wegman

Plywood Sandwich

1983

Watercolour on paper

4

William Wegman

Two Ice Cubes

1973-1997

Pencil on paper

5

William Wegman

Child and Huge Adult

c. 1976

Pencil on paper envelope

6

William Wegman

Plant Stems

1974

Pencil on paper

7

William Wegman

Find the Difference

1974

Pencil on paper

8

William Wegman

X-Ray of Peach in Dish

1973

Pencil on paper

9

William Wegman

The Secret

1973

Pencil on paper

10

William Wegman

Wrong

c. 1973-74

Pencil on paper

11

William Wegman

It’s Going to Rain Tomorrow

1978

Pencil, coloured pencil and ink on paper

12

William Wegman

Woman with Two Hairs

Pencil on paper

13

William Wegman

Swing Set

2009

Pencil on paper

14

William Wegman

I Hate this House

Pencil and crayon on paper

15

William Wegman

Food Drug

1975

Pencil on paper

16

William Wegman

Side Views

1998

Unique black and white Polaroid print, printed 1998

17

William Wegman

Illuminary

1993

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1993

18

William Wegman

Breakout

1995

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1995

19

William Wegman

Eyewear II

1994

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1994

20

William Wegman

Presentation

2004

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 2004

21

William Wegman

Look There

1996

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1996

22

William Wegman

Armed and Matching

1989

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1989

23

William Wegman

My Coo Kie

1991

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1991

24

William Wegman

Climber

1991

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1991

25

William Wegman

Hung Over

1998

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1988

26

William Wegman

Breakout

1995

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1995

27

William Wegman

Neckware: Upper and Lower

1990

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1990

28

William Wegman

Towelling

1993

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1993

29

William Wegman

Two On

1991

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1991

30

William Wegman

Posed on Pedestal

1994

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1994

31

William Wegman

Chair Piece

1991

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1991

32

William Wegman

Over Blue

1991

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1991

33

William Wegman

Dressed from Below

1994

Two unique colour Polaroid prints, printed 1994

34

William Wegman

3 Out of Four

1988

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1988

35

William Wegman

Boy and His Boy

2002

Two unique colour Polaroid prints, printed 2002

36

William Wegman

Primary Trio

1991

Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1991

37

William Wegman

Left to Right

1989

Three unique colour Polaroid prints, printed 1989

38

William Wegman

Leggings

1998

Two unique colour Polaroid prints, printed 1998

39

William Wegman

Pawns

2015

Pigment print

40

William Wegman

White Out

2014

Pigment print

41

William Wegman

Split Level

2010

Pigment print

42

William Wegman

Constructivism

2014

Pigment print

43

William Wegman

Modelling School

1974

Silver gelatin print, printed 1982

44

William Wegman

Dog House

1981

Silver gelatin print, printed 1982

45

William Wegman

Of The Lake

1976

Silver gelatin print, printed 1982

46

William Wegman

Ball Work

1975/1989

Three silver gelatin prints

47

William Wegman

Funglasses

1970

Two silver gelatin prints

48

William Wegman

He Showed Her What He Made

1972

Silver gelatin print, printed 1970s

49

William Wegman

Portable TV

1971/1992

Silver gelatin print

William Wegman

‘My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray – and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything’  William Wegman

B. United States 1943

Portrait: William Wegman

B. United States 1943

Biography

William Wegman is best known for his ongoing artistic collaborations with his Weimaraners. Wegman’s early work focused on black and white photographs and moving images that utilised the subtlest of visual puns to convey their message. Man Ray, his first Weimaraner, became a central figure in Wegman’s early photographs and video works. He became an early exponent of conceptual art, and his first works were performance based. Pieces included throwing radios off a roof and floating Styrofoam letters along the Milwaukee River. An installation work was included in Harold Szeemann’s influential exhibition Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form in Bern in 1969, alongside works by Joseph Beuys, Richard Serra and Bruce Nauman. 

Wegman’s first photographs and films were made as a way of documenting these early ephemeral and performance-based works, although they quickly became the focus of his artistic output. Wegman returned to photographing dogs in 1987, using a large format 20×24 inch Polaroid camera. Wegman worked extensively with the Polaroid format from 1979 until 2007.

William Wegman was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1943. He received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston and an MFA in painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne in 1967. Wegman has been the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and two National Endowment for the Arts grants and his work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the world. These have included the seminal exhibitions When Attitudes Become Form and Documenta V, as well as a retrospective organised by the Kunstmuseum Lucerne in 1990, which travelled to museums including the Centre Pompidou, Paris and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Recent exhibitions include William Wegman and California Conceptualism, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018, and Being Human, which was the central exhibition at Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles in the summer of the same year.

William Wegman lives and works in New York and Maine.

‘My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray – and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything’  William Wegman

Discover

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Exhibitions

2

Huxley-Parlour William Wegman 'What'

William Wegman: Drawing by Artist

10.3 - 22.42023

Closed

WILLIAM WEGMAN AT HUXLEY-PARLOUR

William Wegman: Polaroids

26.9 - 20.102018

Closed

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