Tag: Hairy Who

Detail of Joseph Elmer Yoakum, Mt. Raft River near Great Salt Lake near Village Grouse Creek, Utah, 1969, Color pencil, ballpoint pen, graphite on paper, 12 x 18 3/4 in, 30.5 x 47.6 cm. Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan, New York. Photo: William H. Bengston, Chicago.

Art Greg CookJuly 27, 2019 0

The Visionary Landscapes Of Joseph Yoakum: ‘There’s Nothing I Haven’t Suffered To See Things First Hand’

Joseph Yoakum (1890-1972) often jotted the locations of his abstracted landscape drawings in the top left of the pictures—the Florida Everglades, the Mississippi River, Utah canyons, New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain,…Continue Reading →

Detail of Karl Wirsum, “Screamin’ Jay Hawkins,” 1968.

Art Greg CookJanuary 2, 2019 0

Hairy Who: Chicago’s Sordid, Goofball, Raucous, Grotesque ‘60s Pop Art

In the mid 1960s, Jim Falconer and Jim Nutt—recent graduates of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who’d met working at Chicago’s Allan Frumkin Gallery (which exhibited H.C.…Continue Reading →