- 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)
- Accession Number
- M.2016.143
- 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.
- 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.
