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Karl Wirsum first began drawing when he was 5 and stuck for weeks in a hospital room, recovering from a fractured skull.
And he never stopped not even after he’d had several strokes and could barely move his hand.
“Even if it was just wiggly marks and circles and little angles on paper,” said his wife of 53 years, Lorri Gunn Wirsum. “He did it every day. He looked out our back window at an apple tree, and all through the winter with the tree skeletal, he just would draw the branches – his version of it.”
Mr. Wirsum – who gained fame locally and nationally during the 1960s for his witty, entirely original and meticulous exploration of the human form – died Thursday at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Lake View, his wife said. He was 81. He’d lived almost all of his life in the city.
Hindmanâs May Fine Art Auctions Realize Over $7.4 Million Led By A Sought-After Mucha Painting
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Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860â1939) Woman with Flowering Branches, 1920, oil on canvas, signed Mucha and dated (lower right) 30 ¼ x 25 ¼ inches. Property from the Estate of Avis Hope Truska, Scottsdale, Arizona. Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000. Price Realized: $456,500.
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Hindman Auctions presented its spring Fine Art sales this week, realizing more than $7.4 million across three days of sales, beating presale estimates, and setting global auction records. A renowned selection and competitive international bidding brought fantastic results. Strong engagement with works by artists such as Alphonse Mucha, Edward Willis Redfield, Jim Nutt, Bernard Frize, Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, and Frank Stella drove remarkable prices to conclude a successful series of auctions. Property from the C
The artist William T. Wiley in 1997 Jack Fulton
William T. Wiley, a beloved Bay Area artist and teacher and one of the founders of the Funk Art movement which included Peter Saul, Robert Arneson, Ed Kienholz, Bruce Conner, Jim Nutt and others has died, aged 83. His son Ethan Wiley confirmed to
that Wiley died from complications related to Parkinson’s disease, which the artist had lived with since 2014.
Wiley was born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1937. His father was a construction foreman who frequently moved the family around the country, and they ultimately settled in Washington State. In 1960 Wiley graduated from the California School of Fine Arts (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute), with a bachelor of fine arts degree and in 1962 earned his master of fine arts from the same institution.