Name: Dog Watch Playboy Magazine Exclusive 1991, Special Limited Edition
Brand: Karl Wirsum

Dog Watch Playboy Magazine Exclusive 1991, Special Limited Edition

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About the Item

Rare and authentic collectible watches, designed by Hairy Who & Chicago Imagist artist Karl Wirsum for Playboy Magazine. Made in 1991, buyer can choose between genuine leather watch band in black or navy. Please make sure to specify band color when purchasing for availability. Karl Wirsum (b. 1939), as part of the Hairy Who group (along with James Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, and Suellen Rocca). This group came to be known by the exhibition title of the same name, which was co-curated by Don Baum at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1966. By the early 1970s, several Hairy Who artists came to be known as Chicago Imagists, (a name for which critic Franz Schulze is credited for having developed) and this "group" expanded to include Ed Paschke, Roger Brown, Christina Ramberg and Barbara Rossi). In 1969 the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago exhibited many Imagists in a show entitled "Don Baum Says 'Chicago Needs Famous Artists'". Wirsum developed a style that combines a graphic sensibility–vivid, flat colors, simplified cartoon-like figures–with a sense of humor evident in the works themselves and also in titles that second guess and play with words. Wirsum’s imaginary creatures and super hero characters enact bizarre scenes. Figures from outer space perform domestic tasks such as mowing the lawn; space men happily orbit starry objects. His work exists in the buffer zone between real and imaginary, surrealist and figurative, mundane domesticity and super hero powers, day-to-day existence and daydreams. Wirsum currently lives in Chicago. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Ball State University, Muncie, IN Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA The Illinois Collection for the State of Illinois Center, Chicago, IL Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Creator:
Karl Wirsum (1939, American)
Creation Year:
1991
Dimensions:
Height: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)Width: 2 in (5.08 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Period:
1990-1999
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Chicago, IL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU112824313752

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