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"More Alien Than Cute" From William Wegman Puppies 1997 Book

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"More Alien Than Cute" From William Wegman Puppies 1997 Book

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"Orange Block", "Red Cube", And "Block Bridge" From William Wegman Puppies 1997 Book

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"Orange Block", "Red Cube", And "Block Bridge" From William Wegman Puppies 1997 Book

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"Flying Puppy" From William Wegman Puppies 1997 Book

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"Flying Puppy" From William Wegman Puppies 1997 Book

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"Cat Back Display" From William Wegman Puppies 1997 Book

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"Cat Back Display" From William Wegman Puppies 1997 Book

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"Cottage" From William Wegman Puppies 1997 Book

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"Cottage" From William Wegman Puppies 1997 Book

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CTW Sesame Street "William Wegman's Mother Goose" VHS 1997 

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CTW Sesame Street "William Wegman's Mother Goose" VHS 1997 

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William Wegman's Mother Goose is a 1997 Sesame Street video starring William Wegman's dogs. In the 30-minute video, Mother Goose tries to teach her son, Simon Goose, how to rhyme using some of her famous nursery rhymes.

Some of the nursery rhyme segments aired on Sesame Street as regular inserts with minor differences in music, editing, and sound effects.

Coffee and Tea

Little Girl with a Curl

Little Jumping Joan

The Tarts

The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Winter

Lucy Locket

Every Lady in This Land

Golden Slumbers

Cock-Crow

Director: William Wegman

Producer: Andrea Beeman

Camera: Allen Cohen

Music Supervisor: Lawrence Lipnik

Narrator: William Wegman

Additional Voice-over: Andrea Beeman

Hands: Andrea Beeman, Jason Burch, Lisa Martin, Kathryn Ott, Pam Wegman

Feet: Andrea Beeman

Original Music: Mark De Gli Antoni, Tom Judson

Musical Arrangements: Lawrence Lipnik

Supervising Producer for CTW: Arlene Sherman

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William Wegman's Mother Goose is a 1997 Sesame Street video starring William Wegman's dogs. In the 30-minute video, Mother Goose tries to teach her son, Simon Goose, how to rhyme using some of her famous nursery rhymes. Some of the nursery rhyme segments aired on Sesame Street as regular inserts with minor differences in music, editing, and sound effects.

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List Of Every William Wegman Published Book

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List Of Every William Wegman Published Book

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Abrams, 2016. Texts by Martin Filler, William Wegman, Amy Hempel, Susan Orlean, Bob Elliott and Robert Krulwich.

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This is William Wegman's "About the Artist" statement from his official website.

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William Wegman was born in 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received a B.F.A. in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston in 1965 and an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana in 1967. From 1968 to 1970 he taught at the University of Wisconsin. In the fall of 1970 he moved to Southern California where he taught for one year at California State College, Long Beach. In 1971 He moved to Santa Monica. By the early 70s, Wegman's work was being exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. In addition to solo shows with Sonnabend Gallery in Paris and New York, Situation Gallery in London and Konrad Fisher Gallery in Dusseldorf, his work was included in such seminal exhibitions as "When Attitudes Become Form," and "Documenta V" and regularly featured in Interfunktionen, Artforum and Avalanche magazines.

It was while he was in Long Beach that Wegman got his dog, a Weimaraner who he named Man Ray, and began a long and fruitful collaboration. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. When Man Ray died in 1982 he was named "Man of the Year" by the Village Voice. It was not until 1986 that Wegman got a new dog, Fay Ray, and another collaboration began marked by Wegman's extensive use of the Polaroid 20 x 24 camera. With the birth of Fay's litter in 1989, Wegman's cast of grew to include Fay's offspring - Battina, Crooky and Chundo - and later, their offspring: Battina's son Chip in 1995, Chip's son Bobbin in 1999 and Candy and Bobbin's daughter Penny in 2004. Out of Wegman's involvement with this cast of characters grew a series of childrens' books inspired by the dogs' various acting abilities: Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, ABC, Mother Goose, Farm Days, My Town, Surprise Party and Chip Wants a Dog. Wegman has also published a number of books for adults including Man's Best Friend, Fashion Photographs, William Wegman 20 x 24, The New York Times Bestseller Puppies, Fay, William Wegman: Paintings and the upcoming Being Human, edited by William Ewing and published by Thames and Hudson fall 2017.

Wegman has created film and video works for Saturday Night Live and Nickelodeon and his video segments for Sesame Street have appeared regularly since 1989. In 1995, Wegman's film The Hardly Boys was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Wegman has been commissioned to create images for a wide range of projects including a fashion campaign for Acne, banners for the Metropolitan Opera and covers for numerous publications including The New Yorker and, most recently, Wallpaper. Wegman has appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and with Jay Leno, The David Letterman Show and The Colbert Report.

Numerous retrospectives of Wegman's work have toured Europe, Asia and the United States including: "Wegman's World," at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in 1981; "William Wegman: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Videotapes," which opened at the Kunstmuseum, Lucerne in 1990 and traveled to venues across Europe and the United States including the Centre Pompidou, Paris and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; "Funney/Strange" which opened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2006 and made its final stop at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus in the fall of 2007 and "Hello Nature" which opened at the Bowdoin Museum of Art in 2012 and travelled to Artipelag in Stockholm, Sweden. Recent museum exhibitions have included touring retrospectives in Japan, Korea and Spain and numerous gallery exhibitions including , in 2016 "William Wegman: New and Used Furniture" at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles; "Good Dogs on Nice Furniture" at Texas Gallery, Houston and "William Wegman: Paintings" at Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York. Being Human, a large scale survey of over thirty years of Wegman's photographic work was published in fall 2017 (Chronicle/Thames and Hudson). A travelling exhibition inspired by the book is is being organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and will open at the "Rencontres d'Arles" this summer, the start of a four year tour that will include stops in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Dressed and Undressed at Sperone Westwater Gallery and Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to paint, draw, make videos and take photographs with his dogs Flo and Topper.

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William Wegman was born in 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received a B.F.A. in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston in 1965 and an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana in 1967. From 1968 to 1970 he taught at the University of Wisconsin.

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I found this biography about William Wegman on his official website.

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Born 1943, Holyoke, Massachusetts 1965 B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art, Boston1967 M.F.A., University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana 2024 William Wegman: Solo Show, Loom Gallery, Milano, Italy; October 24 - November 20, 2024 William Wegman: Favorite Models, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China; July 27 - September 13, 2024 The Photography of William

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"I wondered what kind of mother Fay would be to her puppies. Would she ignore them... pretend they weren't hers? I could see Fay behaving in that way. To me, Fay was part Greta Garbo and part Joan Crawford."

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Wegman, William. William Wegman Polaroids. Harry N. Abrams, 2002.

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Wegman, William. William Wegman Polaroids. Harry N. Abrams, 2002.

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Wegman, William, et al. Puppies. First edition, Hyperion Books for Children, 1997.

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Wegman, William. William Wegman : Being Human. Edited by William A. Ewing, Chronicle Books, 2017.

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Wegman, William. William Wegman : Being Human. Edited by William A. Ewing, Chronicle Books, 2017.

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For more than 40 years, artist William Wegman has been making portraits and videos of his beloved Weimaraner dogs, who have appeared in numerous publications and on television shows like Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live.

And this month, he released a new career retrospective book, "William Wegman: Being Human." The book features 300 images of his dogs from his countless collection of prints.

NewsHour Weekend recently visited Wegman in his New York City home and studio, where he introduced us to his current canine models, Flo and Topper.

Angela Westwater, owner of the Sperone Westwater Gallery in Manhattan, discusses the exhibit, "William Wegman: Dressed and Undressed."

Wegman lives and works in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan with his dogs. He keeps many of the props utilized for photo shoots in his downstairs basement, which are filled with decades' worth of costumes and trinkets he uses to make elaborate scenes.

He said Weimaraners are good at standing still because they were originally bred to hunt, and are capable of freezing and pointing at prey.

Most of Wegman's photos were captured on a 20-by-24-inch Polaroid camera, which he said is the size of a "big refrigerator" kept inside a a wood base that's "quite beautiful actually but very rickety and fragile." When working outside, Wegman would haul it around in a truck.

Wegman has taken about 15,000 photos with that Polaroid, but he has since moved on to digital cameras.

Wegman said he's worked with 14 Weimaraners in total, the first of which was named Man Ray, named after the artist. Yet, he didn't initially plan on taking artistic portraits of them.

"I took his picture, which you would do with your newborn, or whatever," he said. "It was kind of magical how he became. He was kind of transformed by the act of photographing him."

Wegman was born in 1943 in Massachusetts and in the 1960s went on to receive fine arts degrees in Boston and Illinois, where he studied painting. He taught in Wisconsin and California, and by the 1970s his artwork was being exhibited in galleries around the world, about the same time he began taking photos of his first Weimaraner.

Wegman's photographs now sell for thousands of dollars and he has published 40 books, including 20 children's books.

At age 74, Wegman said he plans on continuing his work, including an extensive portfolio of paintings.

Wegman's work is now being shown through Oct. 28 at the Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York. An exhibit of his images will take place from Jan. 17 through July at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with plans for an international showing next summer at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.

"William Wegman: Being Human," released this month in collaboration with William A. Ewing, includes more than 300 photos, many of which have never been shown to the public. Here are some of those images:

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Photos: Four decades of William Wegman's Weimaraners

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For more than 40 years, artist William Wegman has been making portraits and videos of his beloved Weimaraner dogs, who have appeared in numerous publications and on television shows like Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live. And this month, he released a new career retrospective book, "William Wegman: Being Human."