William T. WileyAmerican, 1937–2021Mr. Unpopular
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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- The museum
About the work
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.
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- Accession number
- 1981.397
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- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image: Art Institute of Chicago — © the artist or rights holder
