Mr. Unpopular

Prints and Drawings

1980

William T. Wiley
American, 1937-2021

Mr. Unpopular is among the most enduring of Wiley’s several surrogate self-portraits. He is depicted here in Landfall’s first Ontario Street studio, framed by the culmination of ten years of printed ephemera left by artists who worked there. Wiley created this image as a kind of bittersweet memento for the workshop, which in 1980 was forced to move to new quarters because of encroaching development. Today, Landfall’s original location has become a glitzy strip of bars and restaurants.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: William T. Wiley
Title: Mr. Unpopular
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.: Made 1980
Medium: Color lithograph on white wove paper
Dimensions: Image, max: 90.5 × 70 cm (35 11/16 × 27 9/16 in.); Sheet: 96.5 × 71.1 cm (38 × 28 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Stanley and Norman Freehling
Reference Number: 1981.397

Landfall Press WW79-751

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