Illinois, Wisconsin / Germany. 1909 - 1977
Surreal imagery, gloves, grapes, hats, block printing
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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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Illinois, Michigan. 1919 - 1980
Assemblage, non ob collage
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1914 - 1985
Harlequin figure portrait paintings, clownsset design, playwright
New York, Illinois. 1922 - 2004
Modernist morose figure-genre and portrait painting, collage
Wisconsin, Illinois. 1907 - 1992
Mod genre-landscape and trompe still life painting
Missouri, New York, Illinois. 1912 - 2006
Abstract, non-objective painting, teaching
Illinois. 1935 - 2023
Biomorphic, nature themed sculpture, found objects, graphics
Ohio, New Jersey. 1904 - 2000
Modernist genre and landscape painting-watercolor, illustration
Nebraska, Illinois. 1896 - 1977
Non objective, modernist genre-figure-views
Massachusetts. 1906 - 2001
Abstract-micro-organic, collage
New York / Egypt. 1906 - 1956
Social-surreal streetscape, non ob, teacher
Illinois, Georgia. 1913 - 1996
Female figure, jazz musicians, portrait and genre painting
Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1937 - 1966
Figurative expressionist painting, religion
New York / Germany. 1920 - 1984
Abstract expression and surrealist painting
New York. 1927 - 2023
Abstract expressionist to hyper-real figure painting, self-portraits
New York. 1922 - 2002
Abstract expression, collage
Illinois. 1939 - 2004
Modernist portrait and figure, illustrator
Illinois. 1903 - 1991
Three dimensional knotted and wrapped fiber art, weaving, art collector
Wisconsin. Born 1942
Magic realist painter of environmental themes
Illinois, California. 1939 - 2021
Drawing, funk figure-faces, "Hairy Who," imagist, sculpture, drawing
District Of Columbia, New York / Mexico. 1915 - 2012
Abstract sculpture, modernist figure and portrait painting, graphics
Wisconsin, New York. 1914 - 1976
Figure, genre, still life, and surreal painting
New York, Massachusetts. 1882 - 1935
Sculpture-caricature nude, sketches
Illinois. 1941 - 1997
Abstract landscape painting, ceramics, imagist artist
New York, Georgia. 1930 - 2006
Ethnic genre painting, abstraction, collage
New York, Connecticut. 1901 - 1973
Social surreal genre and abstraction painting
Connecticut. 1904 - 1999
Drawing, nude figure, satirical genre, etching
New York, California, New Jersey. 1864 - 1941
Cavorting nudes and landscape painting
New York. 1866 - 1939
Landscape, coastal, portrait, figure
Indiana, District Of Columbia. Born 1934
Large-scale abstract-figurative, genre
Illinois. Born 1940
Modernist figural whimsey, imagist painting
Illinois. 1924 - 1981
Grotesque figurative images, part of Monster Roster movement