Illinois. 1939 - 2004
Modernist portrait and figure, illustrator
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1939 Chicago, Illinois - 2021 Chicago, Illinois. Known for: Drawing, funk figure-faces, "Hairy Who," imagist, sculpture, drawing.
"Karl Wirsum, Dynamic and Eclectic Chicago Artist, Dies at 81," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Roberta Smith, June 20, 2021. A member of the small but influential group known as the Hairy... Read full biography
"Karl Wirsum, Dynamic and Eclectic Chicago Artist, Dies at 81," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Roberta Smith, June 20, 2021. A member of the small but influential group known as the Hairy Who, he built his art on a highly original synthesis of multiple sources. Karl Wirsum, whose avid,... Read full biography
"Karl Wirsum, Dynamic and Eclectic Chicago Artist, Dies at 81," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Roberta Smith, June 20, 2021. A member of the small but influential group known as the Hairy Who, he built his art on a highly original synthesis of multiple sources. Karl Wirsum, whose avid, sometimes robotic figures in both two and three dimensions exemplified the group of disruptive artists known in the late 1960s as the Hairy Who, died on May 6 in Chicago. He was 81. His death was... Read full biography
"Karl Wirsum, Dynamic and Eclectic Chicago Artist, Dies at 81," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Roberta Smith, June 20, 2021. A member of the small but influential group known as the Hairy Who, he built his art on a highly original synthesis of multiple sources. Karl Wirsum, whose avid, sometimes robotic figures in both two and three dimensions exemplified the group of disruptive artists known in the late 1960s as the Hairy Who, died on May 6 in Chicago. He was 81. His death was announced by Derek Eller, his New York gallery. His family said the cause was cardiac arrest. With titles like Lana Turner With Her Own Eyebrows Before Schrafft’s and Some Underwear Over the Rainbow,”Mr. Wirsum’s art was suffused with a great deal of humor.... Read full biography
"Karl Wirsum, Dynamic and Eclectic Chicago Artist, Dies at 81," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Roberta Smith, June 20, 2021. A member of the small but influential group known as the Hairy Who, he built his art on a highly original synthesis of multiple sources. Karl Wirsum, whose avid, sometimes robotic figures in both two and three dimensions exemplified the group of disruptive artists known in the late 1960s as the Hairy Who, died on May 6 in Chicago. He was 81. His death was announced by Derek Eller, his New York gallery. His family said the cause was cardiac arrest. With titles like Lana Turner With Her Own Eyebrows Before Schrafft’s and Some Underwear Over the Rainbow,”Mr. Wirsum’s art was suffused with a great deal of humor. But the man himself was quiet and reserved, with tastes on the spartan side. Very health conscious, he... Read full biography
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Slide 1 of 3: Doggerel III, 1967
Doggerel III, 1967
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Skullpture Y, c. 1968
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Illinois. Born 1938
Surreal-modernist whimsey
Illinois. 1941 - 1997
Abstract landscape painting, ceramics, imagist artist
New York, Illinois. 1922 - 2004
Modernist morose figure-genre and portrait painting, collage
Illinois, Michigan. 1922 - 2008
Sculptor-assemblage, monotypes
Illinois. Born 1940
Modernist figural whimsey, imagist painting
Illinois. 1924 - 1981
Grotesque figurative images, part of Monster Roster movement
New York, Nova Scotia / Canada. 1929 - 2024
Abstract figure, modernist kinetic sculpture, painting
India, United Kingdom. Born 1954
Modernist object sculpture, installation
Indiana, District Of Columbia. Born 1934
Large-scale abstract-figurative, genre
New York, California. Born 1934
Mod droll parody, caricature
Illinois, Arizona. 1886 - 1972
Naive dream-landscape, outsider art
England, Scotland. 1920 - 2014
Naive iconic abstract painting
New York, Michigan. Born 1955
Psychological portrait painting, abstraction
Connecticut, California. 1922 - 1981
Wooden sculpture-mod droll imagery and found object
New York, New Mexico / Greece, India. Born 1941
Sculpture-knot shaped 'environments', fountains, graphics
Illinois. 1935 - 2023
Biomorphic, nature themed sculpture, found objects, graphics
New York, Ohio / England. 1931 - 2018
Super real views, genre, ships
New York / France. 1917 - 2004
Abstract expressionist painting
New York, California. 1925 - 1969
Mod figure, abstraction, illustration
Illinois, Hawaii. 1930 - 2009
Collage-Chicago imagism, geometric, funk cartoons
New York / Israel, France. 1909 - 1991/92
Abstract, landscape and figure painting, sculpture
Illinois, Wisconsin / Germany. 1909 - 1977
Surreal imagery, gloves, grapes, hats, block printing
New York. Born 1933
Minimalism, conceptualism, installation sculpture
France, Germany. 1904 - 1989
Painter-abstraction
New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Indiana. 1907 - 2002
Stainless steel kinetic sculpture, some drawing
California, New York / China. Born 1933
Large scale geometric sculpture, drawings
Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1937 - 1966
Figurative expressionist painting, religion
Wisconsin. Born 1942
Magic realist painter of environmental themes
France. 1926 - 2016
Abstract painting, sculpture, installation, multi media, drawing
New York, Illinois. 1930 - 2020
Abstract expressionist, surrealist painting on bowed-frame canvas
Illinois, New York, California / Spain. 1900 - 1979
Abstraction, mod figure, interior