TitleMountain Dew E·6·78
Artist
Idelle Weber
(1932 - 2020)
Date1978
MediumEtching, A/P
DimensionsSheet size: 25 × 25 in.
Image size: 10 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.
Mat size: 26 × 25 3/4 in.
Edition1/5
SignedSigned at lower right: "Idelle Weber © 1978".
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, March 19, 2003
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number2003.6
Label TextBorn in Chicago, Idelle Weber moved with her family to California in the early 1940s. As a child she studied with regional luminaries such as Elsie Palmer Payne and Millard Sheets. She continued her education at Scripps College before receiving her BA and MFA from UCLA. Her career had an auspicious beginning when her work was selected for the exhibition "Recent Drawings, U.S.A." at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. She moved to New York the following year.Impressed by the urban aesthetic and the business culture of New York, by the early 1960s Weber was creating images of silhouetted businessmen in office settings that fit squarely into a Pop Art paradigm. By the end of the decade the artist had abandoned the Pop aesthetic for a hyper-realistic style. She was, along with Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Richard Estes, and others, a prominent member of the so-called photorealist movement. Weber has long been fascinated with the detritus found throughout the city and has frequently used it as a subject in her work. "Mountain Dew E-6-78" is from a series of prints of crushed soda and beer cans the artist created in the late 1970s.
