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John Wesley

John Wesley (1928 - 2022) was active/lived in New York, California.  John Wesley is known for Pop images, flat image cartoon-like figures, fantasy, surrealism.

"John Wesley, an Artist Who Couldn’t Be Pinned Down, Dies at 93," Obituary by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times, February 10, 2022

With his cartoon-like work that seemed to plumb the American subconscious, he was celebrated as a Pop artist, a surrealist, an eroticist and more.

John Wesley, a painter of flat, cartoonish figures that seemed to spring not from the well of Pop Art but from some deeper, stranger reservoir of the American unconscious inhabited by floating babies, rubbery nudes and the hapless comic-strip husband Dagwood Bumstead, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93.

His death was confirmed by Fredericks & Freiser, the New York gallery that has represented his work for many years.

In a prolific career of more than five decades, Mr. Wesley, who was known as Jack, had the great distinction and occasional critical misfortune of eluding almost every attempt at categorization. He tolerated the label of Pop artist, he said, mo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10375 characters.]  Artist bio

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