William T. Wiley
American, 1937-2021
Mr. Unpopular
INV-6269
William T. Wiley
American, 1937-20211980
Mr. Unpopular
William T. Wiley American, 1937-2021 →lithographprint
Date
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Stanley and Norman Freehling
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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