WEEGEE "DISTORTION: DRUM" c. 1950s Perceptualism or banal consumer goods

or banal consumer goods

Signed and numbered "38/100" in pencil by the artist

Although Wieland was an artist who was always drawing

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)

WEEGEE "DISTORTION: DRUM" c. 1950s Perceptualism or banal consumer goodsArthur Felling, better known as Weegee (1899 1968) was a highly successful (and notorious) photojournalist artist. In addition to contributing an enormous number of images to various American newspapers, he would become famous, beyond New York and news circles, after the publication of Naked City (1945) and Weegee's People (1946). Weegee began shooting scenes of crime, drama, tragedy and depravity throughout New York City in the 1930s for Acme