The Artwork of the Week!! Sun, Sept. 25, 2022 is by William T. Wiley (1937-2021): "Were King Sketch"; ink drawing with dripped paint, 1973. $1,800.00
The Artwork of the Week!! Sunday, September 25, 2022, is by California Funk artist William T. Wiley (1937-2021). Check out our on-going exhibition at: OnPaper.art
"Were King Sketch" is an ink drawing with dripped paint by California Funk artist William T. Wiley (1937-2021). The drawing image measures 17 x 14 inches, done in 1973. It was drawn by the artist on a sheet of ivory textured wove watercolor paper with a perforated top edge that measures 18 x 15-7/8 inches. The artist "signed" the drawing with a "W" incorporated within a ball of yarn in the lower?right corner and dated it "73". The drawing was sold by the Allan Frumkin Gallery in New York and is accompanied by the label. The inventory number for this unique drawing is 24310.
This drawing by William T. Wiley (1937-2021) is available from the gallery for $1,800.00.
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William T. Wiley's penchant for incorporating puns, non sequiturs, and other plays on words is on full display in this work, aptly titled "Were King Sketch" (or "working" sketch). Among these annotations are: "A Version: Some on as talanted Lucky and beawbifull as you will gain little bitchin sympathy." OR "when the King Whines the Dog Pines. NO NO THAT! SNOT IT!"; "Add Vice Collumn for a Friend"; "This is plumb naughty!", and "Crewed In Tell A Gents".
The exhibition label from the Allan Frumkin Gallery that accompanied this work noted that the mediums used were ink and watercolor. However, as the color sits on the surface of the paper in thick, dimensional shapes, it's unclear if they're the result of tubed watercolor, enamel, or acrylic paint.
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William T. Wiley was born in Bedford, Indiana on October 21, 1937. His family moved to Texas and Washington state when Wiley was a child, settling in the latter when he was a teen. After graduation he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, earning his B.F.A. degree in 1960 and his M.F.A. degree in 1962. After taking a position on the faculty of the University of California, Davis art department the following year, he embarked on his path toward establishing the Bay Area Funk art scene with fellow Bay Area artists Roy DeForest and Robert Arneson. A multi-disciplinary artist, he?worked in a broad range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, film, and music.?
Wiley exhibited frequently throughout the U.S. and abroad. Major exhibitions included: the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1960 (first solo show); Venice Biennial, 1980; Whitney Biennial, 1983; H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1996; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005; Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2009 - 2010 (retrospective); among many others. He?taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, University of Nevada at Reno, Washington State College in Pullman, University of California at Berkeley, School of Visual Arts in New York, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and was Associate Professor at the University of California at Davis between 1963 and 1973.
As late as 2019 Wiley was continuing to create, collaborating as a singer with German composer Efdemin (a.k.a. Phillip Sollman) on the song "Oh, Lovely Appearance of Death," for his album New Atlantic.
During the Smithsonian American Art Museum retrospective, Eric Denker, director of the Corcoran Gallery and one of the show's collaborators, wrote, "There is an innate directness to Wiley's work ... he applies his inherent wit and creativity to basic materials to explore very humanistic themes. Wiley's assured draftsmanship and quiet humor draw us into his world, where we pause to marvel at the metamorphosis of symbols and words and images." William T. Wiley died on April 25, 2021 in Marin County, California.
To purchase this drawing, see other works, or read a biography, for William T. Wiley use this link to our website: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/artist/2724/Wiley/William
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