Work by the Philadelphia Wireman at the Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art
The Philadelphia Wireman is the working name given to an unknown outsider artist responsible for approximately 1,200 small-scale wire-frame sculptures that were found by a passerby, abandoned on a street outside a transient home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1982.[1] The artist is assumed to have access to the tools required to bend some of the heavy-gauge wire in the sculptures; it is hypothesised that the sculptures were abandoned after their creator's death. Nothing is known about the artist's motives. Many of the pieces resemble African art, and this plus the demographics of the neighborhood where the art collection was found have led some reviewers to speculate that the artist was African-American.[2][3] In 1999, according to the Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, a gallery visitor correctly identified the street that the art was found on, and confirmed that he had seen an elderly black man making these sculptures circa 1970, but beyond that the artist has never been identified.[4][5]
^DuPlessis (2001), p. 273.
^Dean Jensen Gallery (c. 2010).
^Ollman (c. 1985).
^Frank, Priscilla (21 January 2016). "Artist Who Left 1,200 Sculptures In An Abandoned Alley Will Forever Remain A Mystery". HuffPost.
^Fine, Gary (2004). Everyday genius : self-taught art and the culture of authenticity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 88. ISBN 9780226249506.
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