Mel Ramos

Ramos, Melvin John

American, 1935 - 2018

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Mel Ramos, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Coca Cola, 1972, color lithograph on wove paper, Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy, 2015.115.39

Coca Cola

Mel Ramos, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger · 1972 · color lithograph on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.115.39

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Llama

Mel Ramos, Graphicstudio · 1970 · color lithograph ·  Accession ID  1986.26.81

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Indian Rhinoceros

Mel Ramos, Graphicstudio · 1970 · color lithograph ·  Accession ID  1986.26.82

Mel Ramos, Collectors Press, Curassow, 1969, color lithograph on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn), 2015.19.3403

Curassow

Mel Ramos, Collectors Press · 1969 · color lithograph on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.3403

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Candy from S.M.S. No. 5 (October 1968)

Mel Ramos, The Letter Edged in Black Press Inc. · 1968 · portfolio of mixed media art objects ·  Accession ID  1992.62.5.2

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S.M.S. No. 5 (October 1968)

Various Artists, Neil Jenney, Angus MacLise, Edward Fitzgerald, Diane Wakoski, Mel Ramos, Bruce Nauman, Wall Batterton, Yoko Ono, Lawrence Weiner, Robert Rohm, William Schwedler, William Nelson Copley, The Letter Edged in Black Press Inc. · 1968 · portfolio of mixed media art objects ·  Accession ID  1992.62.5.1-12.a-c

Various Artists, Tom Wesselmann, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Peter Phillips, John Wesley, James Rosenquist, Mel Ramos, Gerald Laing, Allen Jones, Knickerbocker Machine & Foundry, Original Editions, 11 Pop Artists, Volume I, 1966, portfolio of eleven prints with title and colophon pages, Gift of Francine Schear Linde, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.239.1.1-11

11 Pop Artists, Volume I

Various Artists, Tom Wesselmann, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Peter Phillips, John Wesley, James Rosenquist, Mel Ramos, Gerald Laing, Allen Jones, Knickerbocker Machine & Foundry, Original Editions · 1966 · portfolio of eleven prints with title and colophon pages ·  Accession ID  1991.239.1.1-11

Mel Ramos, Knickerbocker Machine & Foundry, Original Editions, Chic, 1965 (published 1966), screenprint on wove paper, Gift of Francine Schear Linde, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.239.1.9

Chic

Mel Ramos, Knickerbocker Machine & Foundry, Original Editions · 1965 (published 1966) · screenprint on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1991.239.1.9

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1¢ Life

Alfred Jensen, Öyvind Fahlström, Reinhoud, Alfred Leslie, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Karel Appel, Bram Van Velde, Allan Kaprow, Mel Ramos, Walasse Ting, James Rosenquist, Enrico Baj, Tom Wesselmann, Kurt R. Hoffmann Sonderborg, Andy Warhol, Sam Francis, Kimber Smith, Claes Oldenburg, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Joan Mitchell, Maurice Beaudet, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Various Artists, Antonio Saura, Robert Rauschenberg, Pierre Alechinsky, Asger Jorn, Alan Davie, Jim Dine · 1964 · portfolio of 62 color lithographs, 19 reproductions, and 61 poems, with colophon page ·  Accession ID  1992.37.1

A blond, buxom woman with peach-colored skin wears a leopard-print bathing suit against an abstracted, colorful garden setting in this vertical painting. The woman’s features and body are outlined in dark red and minimally shaded, giving it a cartoonish look. The woman’s body is angled to our right, and she looks off in that direction with hooded hazel eyes lined with blue shadow. She has a button nose, and her full, hot-pink lips are closed. A line at the side of her face suggests high cheekbones. Blond bangs create a wave across her forehead, and her hair falls to her shoulders. The bathing suit has narrow straps over the shoulders that swell to cover about half of her full breasts. The bands continue down her torso and meet the brief-like bottom. She holds a plan by its stem with one hand, and we can see one red-painted fingernail. Her other arm disappears on the far side of her body. Bright green leaves and a red, long-petaled flower blossom grow between us and her legs. Bands of mostly flat color behind her create the impression of grass in acid green, taller brush in midnight blue, distant trees in violet-purple behind her shoulders, and a higher level of canopies silhouetted in black against a scarlet-red sky.
Mel Ramos, Wild Girl, 1963, oil on canvas, Gift of Abrams Family Collection, 2010.118.1

Wild Girl

Mel Ramos · 1963 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2010.118.1