Worse Sum Show
Catalogue
- Year
- 1970
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 56.2 × 42.5 cm (22 3/16 × 16 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Karl Wirsum
Artist
Drawing
Karl Wirsum was an American painter and printmaker known for his exuberant, cartoonish figuration and bold graphic surfaces. Working primarily in acrylic and ink from the 1960s onward, his compositions featured distorted human faces and bodies rendered in acid colors and thick outlines, rooted in Chicago's postwar artistic traditions. His work merged commercial graphic design sensibilities with fine art ambition, creating a visual language that anticipated aspects of later Pop and Figurative movements.
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1990 · Colored crayon with graphite and collaged crayon and graphite elements on white wove paper
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1981 · Acrylic on canvas
Apple-Polished Zombunny
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1980 · Acrylic on canvas
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1980 · Color offset lithograph on white wove paper
Green-Eared Zombunny
1980 · Colored pencils and colored crayons on black wove paper
Record
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- Karl Wirsum
- Year
- 1970
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 56.2 × 42.5 cm (22 3/16 × 16 3/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1970-037826
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified