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William T. Wiley
Deneb

1996

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Deneb Color lithograph on BFK Rives, 1996 Signed and dated in pencil lower right Titled and inscribed "Ed 265" lower left Publishers chop stamp l;ower left Printed by Shark's Ink, Published by Print Club of Cleveland, Publication No. 75 Edition: 265 (60/265) The title of this piece is "Deneb" - the brightest star in the distant constellation Cygnus - one of the few that it is said can be seen with the naked eye. Condition: Excellent Image size: 25 1/8 x 17 3/4 inches Frame size: 32 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches From a review in the Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post Staff Writer, Friday, September 2, 2005: "THE ART OF William T. Wiley swirls with clues as to its meaning: punning fragments of text (e.g., "one sighs fits all"), symbols such as figure eights and tic-tac-toe grids, recurring motifs such as human skulls and dunce caps, and mischievous pop-cultural and art-historical references. On view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, "Current Evince: Selected Prints by William T. Wiley From the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Take "Deneb," for instance, a color lithograph that takes its name from the star that appears in the constellation Cygnus and may, in fact, have long since gone out. On one level, it's a pretty straightforward commentary about the ephemeral nature of things. There's a passage of text, reading in part: "the light that touches our faces has fallen for sixteen thousand years -- maybe there's something behind it, and maybe there isn't." Wiley's art, in a sense, is like that light, and he's like the star. After the artist is gone, he seems to be saying, and all that's left is the picture, we may still be looking at it and trying to figure out the joke." Public Collections: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Stedelijk van Abbemuseum at Eindhoven, The Netherlands Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD City of San Francisco, CA City of Hayward, CA City of Columbus, OH Red Deer College, Alberta, Canada Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN American Academy & Institute, New York, NY University of Idaho Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, Australia Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX St. Louis Museum, St. Louis, MO Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Graham Gund Collection, Cambridge, MA La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Emporia State University, Emporia, KS Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Kansas City Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Mills College, Oakland, CA Museum & Art Galleries of North Territories, Queensland, Australia Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Richard B. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Sheldon, NE Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, NY University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Awards: Painting Prize, San Francisco Art Institute, 1959 First prize, San Francisco Art Institute Festival 1960 Fletcher Award, California School of Fine Arts, 1960 First Prize in Painting, Oakland Annual, 1960 New Talent Award, Art in America, 1961 Painting Prize, 65th Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, 1962 Sculpture Prize, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1962 Creative Arts Award, University of California, Davis, 1968 Purchase Prize, Whitney Museum, New York, 1968 Nealie Sullivan Award, San Francisco Art Institute 1968 Bartels Prize, 72nd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, 1976 Traveling Grant to Australia, Australian Arts Council, 1980 Honorary Doctorate at SFAI, San Francisco, California Recipient of Honor and Awards, American Academy of Letters and Arts, New York, NY
  • Creator:
    William T. Wiley (1937, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1996
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 25.13 in (63.84 cm)Width: 17.75 in (45.09 cm)
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Fairlawn, OH
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: FA123611stDibs: LU14015959412

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