Portrait of Al Bum (See Saw)

Courtesy of the Artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey

1966

Karl Wirsum
American, 1939-2021

Status: On View, Gallery 289
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Karl Wirsum
Title: Portrait of Al Bum (See Saw)
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.: 1966
Medium: Acrylic on Plexiglass
Dimensions: Framed: 58.5 × 53.4 cm (23 × 21 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; Ada S. Garrett Prize Fund; Flora Mayer Witkowsky Purchase Prize Fund; Walter M. Campana Memorial and Watson F. Blair prize funds; Municipal Art League Prize for Portraiture Fund; Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Brower and Max V. Kohnstamm prize funds; Broadus James Clarke Memorial Fund
Reference Number: 2024.287
Copyright: © 1966 Estate of Karl Wirsum

Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum, Dis is the Catalogue, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dupont Center, 1969), n.p., cat. 107, as Bum.
Billie Muraben, “Anti-MoralityTales: Famous Artists from Chicago at Milan’s Fondazione Prada,” PORT Magazine, Nov. 30, 2017, 2 (color ill.).

Chicago, Dell Gallery, Karl Wirsum: C.A. Doctor, Jan. 9-Jan. 28, 1967, no cat.
Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dupont Center, Hairy Who, Apr. 15–May 17, 1969, cat. 107, as Bum.
Milan, Fondazione Prada, Famous Artists from Chicago, Oct. 20, 2017–Jan. 15, 2018, not in cat.

The artist; given to Christina Ramberg (1946-1995) and Phil Hanson, 1971/1972; sold through Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 2024.

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