Idelle Weber
Jump Rope1967-68

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Artist or Maker: Idelle Weber
United States, Illinois, Chicago, 1932-2020
Title: Jump Rope
Date Made: 1967-68
Medium: Plastic and neon lighting
Dimensions: 93 × 48 × 18 in. (236.22 × 121.92 × 45.72 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the 2016 Collectors Committee
Accession Number: M.2016.143
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: American Art
Curatorial Notes: Idelle Weber is closely associated with the Pop art movement of the 1960s, and Jump Rope includes many of Pop’s defining features: references to mainstream culture, the use of industrial materials employed in advertising, such as neon, and graphic flatness. Although her sculptures and paintings of silhouetted figures convey anonymity, there is an autobiographical element to Jump Rope. Weber made the work a decade after moving to New York City, but it was inspired in part by the ubiquitous presence of plastic and neon signage in Los Angeles, where she had attended school.

Wall label, 2021.
Provenance: The artist, through; [Hollis Taggart Galleries, sold 2016 to]; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Idelle Weber: the Pop Years. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2013.
Sachs, Sid, and Kalliopi Minioudaki, eds. Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968. Philadelphia: The University of the Arts, 2010.
Idelle Weber: Postures and Profiles from the 50s and 60s. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2018.
Copyright: © Estate of Idelle Weber

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Artist or Maker: Idelle Weber
United States, Illinois, Chicago, 1932-2020
Title: Jump Rope
Date Made: 1967-68
Medium: Plastic and neon lighting
Dimensions: 93 × 48 × 18 in. (236.22 × 121.92 × 45.72 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the 2016 Collectors Committee
Accession Number: M.2016.143
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: American Art
Curatorial Notes: Idelle Weber is closely associated with the Pop art movement of the 1960s, and Jump Rope includes many of Pop’s defining features: references to mainstream culture, the use of industrial materials employed in advertising, such as neon, and graphic flatness. Although her sculptures and paintings of silhouetted figures convey anonymity, there is an autobiographical element to Jump Rope. Weber made the work a decade after moving to New York City, but it was inspired in part by the ubiquitous presence of plastic and neon signage in Los Angeles, where she had attended school.

Wall label, 2021.
Provenance: The artist, through; [Hollis Taggart Galleries, sold 2016 to]; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Idelle Weber: the Pop Years. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2013.
Sachs, Sid, and Kalliopi Minioudaki, eds. Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968. Philadelphia: The University of the Arts, 2010.
Idelle Weber: Postures and Profiles from the 50s and 60s. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2018.