Ramos, Mel

(7/24/1935 Sacramento- ) (USA)

   Painter, printmaker, and art teacher. Studied at the Sacramento State College and with Wayne Thiebaud. He became a major figure in the Pop Art movement. His work emphasized images based on pin-ups.

   Reproductions: A/C; 1972; lithograph; Hurwood, 1975: p. 218 . Banana split: 1970; oil; Benedict, 1983: p. 29 . Beaver shot; 1966; Benedict, 1983: p. 28 [C]. Blue coat; 1966; Benedict, 1983: p. 28 [C]. Great red kangaroo; Hurwood, 1975: p. 171 [B]. Marquet's mannequin; 1979; watercolor; Smith, 1980: p. 153 [C]. Tomanda; 1968; pencil; Kronhuasen, 1970c: p. 142 [B]. Touche Boucher; 1973; Benedict, 1983: p. 28 [C] / Smith, 1974: pp. 184-185 [C]. Virnaburger; 1965; oil; Davis, 1968: p. 50 [B]. Wallaby; 1967; pencil; Kro-nhuasen, 1970c: p. 142 [B]. Walrus; 1967; oil; Kronhuasen, 1970c: plate XXVIII [C]. You get more salami with Modigliani; 1974; watercolor; Hur- wood, 1975: p. 218 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 11: pp. 649-650; Elizabeth Clar-idge, The girls of Mel Ramos (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1975); Elizabeth Claridge, "Mel Ramos: sex appeal and the product," London Magazine (June-July 1975): pp. 83-86; David Kuspit, Mel Ramos Pop artfantasies (New York: Watson-Guptill, 2004); Honey Truewoman, "Realism in drag," Arts 48, 5 (February 1974): pp. 44-45.