Butler Institute of American Art
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Youngstown, OH 44502
Youngstown, OH 44502
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Museums page for John Wilde ((1919 - 2006)), known for Paintings of surreal fanciful images, illustration. Showing 10 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1919 Milwaukee, Wisconsin - 2006 Cooksville, Wisconsin. Known for: Paintings of surreal fanciful images, illustration.
Part of the Wisconsin Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s, John Wilde was a Surrealist painter with focus on life and death through grotesque, doll-like people in "otherworldly situations". Many... Read full biography
Part of the Wisconsin Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s, John Wilde was a Surrealist painter with focus on life and death through grotesque, doll-like people in "otherworldly situations". Many of his paintings have old bones, mutated female creatures, and dream-like landscapes, and... Read full biography
Part of the Wisconsin Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s, John Wilde was a Surrealist painter with focus on life and death through grotesque, doll-like people in "otherworldly situations". Many of his paintings have old bones, mutated female creatures, and dream-like landscapes, and frequently he painted himself into his work. He also did detailed, colorful and eerily glowing still lifes. His association with Surrealism began when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin and became... Read full biography
Part of the Wisconsin Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s, John Wilde was a Surrealist painter with focus on life and death through grotesque, doll-like people in "otherworldly situations". Many of his paintings have old bones, mutated female creatures, and dream-like landscapes, and frequently he painted himself into his work. He also did detailed, colorful and eerily glowing still lifes. His association with Surrealism began when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin and became a friend of Marshall Glasier, that Wisconsin Surrealist leader and his art teacher. He joined Glasier at salons at his home where artists gathered to discuss European modernism and other avant-garde topics. Wilde's painting was also linked to Magic... Read full biography
Part of the Wisconsin Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s, John Wilde was a Surrealist painter with focus on life and death through grotesque, doll-like people in "otherworldly situations". Many of his paintings have old bones, mutated female creatures, and dream-like landscapes, and frequently he painted himself into his work. He also did detailed, colorful and eerily glowing still lifes. His association with Surrealism began when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin and became a friend of Marshall Glasier, that Wisconsin Surrealist leader and his art teacher. He joined Glasier at salons at his home where artists gathered to discuss European modernism and other avant-garde topics. Wilde's painting was also linked to Magic Realism and its New York exponents Paul Cadmus and George Tooker. Wilde had a six-decade career as... Read full biography
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About John Wilde: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (10)
All MuseumsCarnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
University of Vermont
61 Colchester Avenue
Burlington, VT 05405Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University
Marquette University
13th & Clybourn Streets, Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881Milwaukee Art Museum
700 North Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202-3707National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004Sheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014