Hairy Who

Prints and Drawings

1968

Art Green (American, born 1941); James Falconer (American, 1943-2022); Gladys Nilsson (American, born 1940); Jim Nutt (American, born 1938); Suellen Rocca (American, 1943-2020); and Karl Wirsum (American, 1939-2021)

The artists in the Hairy Who realized that this 1968 book would have to serve two exhibitions, as the artists were the subject of consecutive shows: one at the Hyde Park Art Center and one at the San Francisco Art Institute. They cannily designed the book to read properly from both directions, with one cover by Karl Wirsum and one by Jim Nutt. The interior pages meet in the middle, where the orientation of the book turns 180 degrees.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: The Hairy Who (Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Jim Falconer, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum)
Title: Hairy Who
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1968
Medium: Book with color off-set lithographs on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: Closed: 28 × 17.8 cm (11 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Raymond K. Yoshida Living Trust and Kohler Foundation, Inc.
Reference Number: 2011.206

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