%C2%A9 James Falconer%2C Arthur Green%2C Gladys Nilsson%2C Wallace Nutting%2C Suellen Rocca%2C and Karl Wirsum
The Portable Hairy Who!, 1966
Color offset lithography on newsprint and coated paper (covers); bound volumeexpand_more
The Mary and Robyn Campbell Fund for Art Booksexpand_more 2017.118.1
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These four illustrated booklets or “art zines” were published to accompany the Hairy Who’s first group exhibitions held between 1966 and 1968. Forerunners of the Chicago Imagist movement, the Hairy Who were figurative artists who drew inspiration from Surrealism, cartoons and comic books, advertising, and vernacular culture. Their eclectic and often provocative work featured distorted cartoon-like characters, irreverent subjects, silly puns and gags, sexual innuendo, satire, and social and political commentary. Styled after comic books, each of the booklets features artwork made especially for the publication by the six members of the group. Part memento, part art project, the publications were inexpensively printed and issued in unknown quantities. Each booklet sold for one dollar. Most have not survived.
Details
- Title
- The Portable Hairy Who!
- Artist Life
- born 1938
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2017.118.1
- Provenance
- Private collection, Chicago; (Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago); sold to MIA, 2017.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Adrian/Born (The Chicago Imagist Print) 453; Nadel (Collected Hairy Who), pp. 2-24
- Curator Approved
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© James Falconer, Arthur Green, Gladys Nilsson, Wallace Nutting, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum