Eeee!

Prints and Drawings

1999

Ray Yoshida
American, 1930-2009

Yoshida taught for four decades at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, influencing generations of artists. He collected comic book clippings— obsessively organizing them by shape, gesture, and sign—and used them to create unique collages. Yoshida methodically arranged his cutouts in a grid, playing with pattern and forms. A renowned collector of popular art and found objects, he believed comics were a form of folk art, a genre for which he had great respect.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Ray Yoshida
Title: Eeee!
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.: 1999
Medium: Collage of printed comic book pages, cut and pasted onto tan wove paper
Dimensions: 43.4 × 33.3 cm (17 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Raymond K. Yoshida Living Trust and Kohler Foundation, Inc.
Reference Number: 2011.203

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