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Warrington Wickham Colescott Jr

Warrington Wickham Colescott, Jr. (1921 - 2018) was active/lived in Wisconsin, California.  Warrington Colescott Jr is known for Politically themed printmaking, droll genre etchings, teaching.

"Warrington Colescott, Who Etched With a Satirical Edge, Dies at 97," Obituary, The New York Times, By Richard Sandomir, October 4, 2018

Warrington Colescott, an innovative printmaker who deftly navigated the intersection between tragedy and high comedy with biting etchings about civil rights, history, politics and the Internal Revenue Service (which audited him), died on Sept. 10 at his farmhouse in Hollandale, Wis., southwest of Madison. He was 97.

His son, Julian, confirmed the death.

“Etching quickens the blood, lights up the eye, affects the satirical mind in the same way that a low-cut neckline affects Dracula,” Mr. Colescott wrote in a catalog for an exhibition of his prints at the Milwaukee Art Museum in 1996.

A Fulbright and Guggenheim fellow whose prints are widely collected, Mr. Colescott employed a figurative style that tinkered liberally with reality in wildly colorful, cartoonish and sometimes disquieting ways.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Warrington Wickham Colescott Jr


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
  • Etching, Etcher
  • Oil Paint
  • Screenprinting, Serigraphy, Silkscreen
Art Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Satire, Parody
  • Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Art School
  • Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, Student
  • Slade School of Art, London, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Fulbright Grant, Fellowship
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Genre Specialty
  • Printmaking Specialty
Artist Colony
  • Silvermine Guild, Art Colony
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Silvermine Artists Guild
Exhibition of Museum
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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