Karl Wirsum American, 1939-2021
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
1968
Karl Wirsum's 'Screamin' Jay Hawkins' (c. 1968) is a Chicago Imagist portrait of the legendary rock-and-roll performer, rendered in Wirsum's signature flat cartoon-comic idiom — saturated colour, heavy outline, and a hard-edged graphic flatness. Acrylic on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago