The Hairy Who

1967

Art Green

Artist, American, born 1941

Gladys Nilsson

Artist, American, born 1940

Jim Nutt

Artist, American, born 1938

Suellen Rocca

Artist, American, 1943 - 2020

Karl Wirsum

Artist, American, 1939 - 2021

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    offset lithograph in brown on yellow wove paper (originally mailed as a quarter-fold flyer)

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 43.18 × 27.94 cm (17 × 11 in.)

  • Accession

    2016.46.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

mailed from the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois to National Gallery of Art, postmarked 20 February 1967.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Inscriptions

in the plate, around perimeter, across top: THE HAIRY who; down right side vertically: THROUGH MAR. 24 TUES. WED. FRI 1-4 pm - SAT 9 AM to 4 PM, across bottom: OPENING up FRi 8-10 FEB 24; vertically along left side: HYDE PK. ART CENTER 5236 So. BLACKSTONE; on verso, inscribed as a mailer with cancelled stamp, in blue ball point pen: National Gallery / 6th & Constitution ave N.W. / Washington D.C.; DA HAIRY 5 is: / ART GREEN / GLADYS NILSSON / JIM NUTT / SUELLEN ROCCA / KARL WIRSUM

Markings

return address, stamped in black: HYDE PARK ART CENTER / 5236 S. BLACKSTONE AVE. / CHICAGO, ILL. 60615

Wikidata ID

Q77016187

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