No Fun Sleeping Under A Picture Like This + Pink Elephants by William Wegman

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Good morning collectors! It's Sara today, with our second edition from the illustrious William Wegman. Once again we've paired two works: No Fun Sleeping Under A Picture Like This and Pink Elephants. And as before, these works are only offered together as a set.

When Jen first introduced William's work to you all a few months ago, she closed with a few words from E.M. Forster:

Only connect! Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

I'll follow that up with something a little less poetic but, I think, fitting, from Victor Borge: "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." While Wegman's Weimaraners have provided the broadest entry point to his practice as an artist—beautiful, charming and engaging as they are—it's his ridiculously clever sense of humor that both belies and reveals his intelligence in much of his work—his videos, paintings, drawings and, of course, his photographs.

In Pink Elephants, much to Batty's chagrin (Batty is the Weimaraner featured), as William put it, "dog plus sock equals elephant." While she's playing along with his game, she also seems to be mocking him, and us: Really, you think this is funny? That, I think, is part of the appeal of Wegman's dogs; they are like us but slightly better, more regal and sophisticated. They're what we might be with better breeding, though they're not too good to have a little fun.

No Fun Sleeping Under A Picture Like This makes light and plain, with a few brushstrokes and fewer words that living with art is looking at it, lots—as you're also sitting, eating and sleeping under it. And if you're going to spend all that time around something, it might as well make you laugh—even better if it makes the person you're with laugh, too.

Once he has you giggling, Wegman invites you to look at his work a little longer. You can do just that if you're in New York. Swing by the JBG and see a couple of Wegman's paintings in Land Use Survey, on view now till August 15th.

Some notes about the edition:
- We're limiting collectors to two 8"x10" + 10"x8" or 11"x14" + 14"x11" pairs each, and only one per collector for prints 16"x20" + 20"x16" and larger.
- This edition is not eligible for any discount or promotion.
- We reserve the right to refund purchases if we determine that a single collector has acquired multiple prints or used a discount code.