Groucho Marxist

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Title Groucho Marxist
Creator Sam Wilson
Building Gittins Gallery
Spatial Coverage Department of Art and Art History, University of Utah
Location City/State Salt Lake City, UT
Description A bust of an elderly man with the chest exposed to reveal damaged lungs and a yellowing heart. His face is turned to the side, donning the Groucho glasses often seen in Sam Wilson's work. Covering his crotch is a disembodied head, smoking a cigar. Other figures include a turtle, a man wearing swimming goggles, and the side-profile of a pharaoh. The figures and boarders are decorated with technicolor squares similar to "bad signal" screens. There is text in the top proper left corner that reads "Apotheosis of the lonely Groucho Marxist, in self-exile, a Cubist from Havana. Reliquary for a solosexual in the Egyptian style."
Subject University of Utah; Department of Art and Art History; Gittins Gallery; Sam Wilson & Tony Smith Exhibition; Sam Wilson
Medium Unknown; Presumed mixed media
File Name SW_GrouchoMarxist
ARK ark:/87278/s6v1t8pf
Setname uu_aah_artpr
ID 2551388
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6v1t8pf
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