Dog Mask II

Contemporary Art

1967

Karl Wirsum
American, 1939-2021

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Karl Wirsum
Title: Dog Mask II
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.: 1967
Medium: Acrylic on papier mâché
Dimensions: 18.7 × 20.3 × 15.9 cm (7 3/8 × 8 × 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Roger Brown Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Lacy Armour Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2025.168

Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, The Hairy Who, exh. checklist (Chicago: Hyde Park Art Center, 1966) n.p., cat 12.
Dennis Adrian, Hare, Toddy, Kong, Tamari: Objects Selected by Karl Wirsum, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1980), n.p., cat. 7, as Wolf Mask, 1968.
Thea Liberty Nichols, Mark Pascale, and Ann Goldstein, eds., Hairy Who? 1966-1969, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 92 (color ill.), 236, cat. 111.

Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Hairy Who III, Apr. 5–May 11, 1968, cat. 12.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hare Toddy Kong Tamari: Karl Wirsum, Dec 2, 1980-Feb. 28, 1981, cat. 7, as Wolf Mask, 1968.
Art Institute of Chicago, Hairy Who? 1966-1969, Sept. 26, 2018-Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 111.

The artist; Roger Brown (1941–1997), Chicago, by Mar. 20, 1979 [Appraisal from Phyllis Kind Gallery; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 10, 2025.

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