[Poster] Impeach Johnson [Signed] de WEEGE, William - 1967

Akron, OH: Akron Art Institute, 1970. First edition. Small oblong softcover. 80 pages. Features a preface by Tom Muir Wilson, a director's statement by Orrel E. Thompson and a foreword by Robert M. Doty. Includes brief artist statements, images by and information about: Barbara Blondeau, Dennis Brylc, Nicholas Dean, Robert Fichter, Betty Hahn, Robert F. Heinecken, Scott Hyde, Joan Lyons, Stephen Mindel, Joyce Neimanas, Bart Parker, Keith Smith, Michael Spencer, Jerry N. Uelsmann, William Weege, and Tom Muir Wilson. A very good plus copy in wrappers that are somewhat rubbed.

Chicago, IL: Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2017. First edition. Softcover. 121 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran June 2 through July 8, 2017. Features the text of a conversation between gallerist John Corbett and William Weege. Includes numerous color illustrations. A fine copy in wrappers. A nicely printed catalog.

San Francisco: Happening Press, 1967. Original poster (63.5x48cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; minor wrinkling, tiny closed tear at top edge, else Very Good or better. Signed by the artist in pencil at bottom edge. Originally issued in Weege's 1967 "Peace Is Patriotic" portfolio, the poster depicting a collage at the head of which is simply printed, backwards, "Napalm:." Base photograph shows a Vietnamese man's face disfigured by napalm, overlaid with anatomical drawings of a human skull with and without muscles, a busty chested white woman, and thick feminine lips from which emerge a photograph of what appears to be a mounted cavalry.

San Francisco: Happening Press, 1967. Original poster (63.5x48cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; light wrinkling, faint shallow crease at top right-hand corner, else Very God or better. Signed by the artist in pencil at bottom edge. Collage depicting a film still of Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan as Tarzan and Jane, Weissmuller's outstretched arm superimposed with an anatomical drawing of the muscles of the human arm, from whose hand is dropped a line of arrows pointing downward to an upside down eagle yelling "Help!" from a speech bubble. At right-hand corner is printed the Bible verse "And lo a voice from Heaven saying this is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.

Happening Press, 1967. Fine. A particularly fine example of one of several posters printed at Happening Press in Berkeley as part of William Weege's Peace is Patriotic series. A nude is paired with a Thomas Jefferson quote and an anti-war pin.

[Madison, Wisconsin], 1967. First Edition. Diptych comprised of two original silkscreen posters, each approximately 60x44cm, printed in red or black on card stock. Faint finger soil and marginal wear else Near Fine. Each signed and dated in pencil, lower right. William Weege was an integral figure in the golden age of printmaking in Madison, Wisconsin, where he first began learning the techniques of both commercial and artistic printmaking as an undergraduate. While working part-time as a film stripper for the local Litho Publications, Weege was also producing protest posters which he put up around campus, though "Students and others in the community found the posters so appealing that they were removed as fast as they were put up" (Colescott, p. 114), leading Weege to discover that he could make money from his artistic output. Both images here would be issued in Weege's "Peace Is Patriotic" portfolio (also 1967), though these impressions appear to have been made independently as they are on… Leer más

No place [Madison, Wisconsin ?], publshed by the artist, 1969. Original 1969 screenprint/ mixed media on thick paper measuring 38.5 inches by 28 inches depicting a defiant woman (quite likely the artist's first wife) with sword in hand. Pencil signed and dated lower right, titled lower left, number 22 of 35 copies. A Fine example. William Weege (American, 1935 - 2020) got his start in the mid 1960's with posters promoting counterculture & and opposition to the Vietnam War which "appeared on the streets of San Francisco and soon covered the walls of every young hipster's pad" (~Wisconsin Visual Art Achievement Awards ). His works are held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Additionally, his art was exhibited at the World's Fair in Japan and the 7th International Biennial Exhibition in 1970, the Museum of Modern Art in 1970 and at the Whitney Museum in 1971. Wedge… Leer más