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John Wilde
John Wilde (1919–2006, pronounced "WILL-dee") was a painter, draughtsman and printmaker of fantastic imagery. Born near Milwaukee, Wilde lived most of his life in Wisconsin, save for service in the U.S. Army during World War II. He received bachelor and master degrees in art from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught for some 35 years. Wilde was associated with the Magic Realism movement and Surrealism in the United States. His darkly humorous figurative imagery often included self-portraits through which he interacted with the people, animals and surreal objects that populate his fantasy world.〔Ken Johnson, “John Wilde, 86 Painter of Surreal Comic Images,” Obituaries, The New York Times, Saturday, March 18, 2006.〕
==Early influences==
The youngest of three boys born to Emil and Mathilda Wilde, John Henry Wilde was born near Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 12, 1919. As a youth he met Karl Priebe (1914–1976) who later became Wilde's colleague in art and a life-long friend. While in high school Wilde visited the Milwaukee studios of Santos Zingale (1908–1999)〔Born in Milwaukee, Zingale received his art training at the Milwaukee State Teacher's College (now the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where in 1943 he received a Master of Art Education. He joined the faculty of the art department there in 1946. When Wilde first met him in the 1930s, Zingale was working with ((art)|social realist ) themes. (Bruce Breckenridge et al., "Memorial Resolution of the Faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison on the Death of Emeritus Professor Santos Zingale", UW–Madison Faculty Document 1492 - 3 April 2000)〕 and Alfred Sessler (1901–1963)〔Wilde became Sessler's colleague in 1948 when Wilde joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Art Department. In the 1930s Sessler worked in painting and drawing and was employed as a muralist by the Treasury Art Project (1935-37) and the (Art Project ) (1937–1942). He later became well known for his lithographs, etchings and woodcuts. (Luther College, Fine Arts Collection, "Alfred Sessler", (Alfred Sessler ) Accessed 3/12/09〕 and realized that his own talent for drawing could lead to a viable career. Soon after this he began informal study with Milwaukee painter Paul Clemens (1911–1992).〔Robert Cozzolino, "In Memoriam: John Wilde (1919–2006)", Wisconsin Visual Artists, Art in Wisconsin, 2006 (Wisconsin Visual Artists ) Accessed 3/12/09〕 As an undergraduate in art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wilde met the artist Marshall Glasier (1902–1989).〔The subject of Glasier’s paintings during his Wisconsin years (c. 1939–1956) were “...mythological, biblical, allegorical and fantasy figures in the incongruous landscapes of southwest Wisconsin.” Sara Krajewski, “Surreal Wisconsin: Surrealism and its Legacy of Wisconsin Art,” Madison Art Center, 1998 (AOL Lifestream : Login ) Accessed 3/26/2003〕 In the late 1930s Glasier studied at the Art Students League but found it difficult in Depression-era New York to make his way an artist. He returned to the home of his youth in Madison, where he lived with his parents for the next twenty years, setting up his art studio in the attic of their house.〔John Wilde, “Marshall Glasier—A Personal Memoir,” The State: Wisconsin Academy Review, p.34 () Accessed 3/5/09〕
According to Wilde, Glasier became “the hub of—the catalyst for—the most exciting art event Madison had experienced…”〔Wilde, () Accessed 3/5/09〕 Although Glasier was not connected with the university, the casual salons he regularly hosted at his parents’ home where a gathering place for students, faculty and “other Madison personalities”〔 who wanted to discuss contemporary literature, art and music. Glazier and the young artists in his circle rejected the American Regionalist painting of the day, which was exemplified by the work of John Steuart Curry, who was artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin from 1936 to 1946.〔Krajewski, 1998〕 The dissenters coalesced into a loosely organized group that included Glasier, Wilde, Sylvia Fein (b. 1919) and Dudley Huppler (1917–1988) in Madison, Wisconsin; Karl Priebe (1914–1976) in Milwaukee and Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977) in Chicago.〔 Wilde also met and married fellow art student Helen Ashman (1919–1966) in 1942.〔Cozzolino, 2006〕 The group of friends often met at Karl Priebe's studio in Milwaukee and frequented the Chicago home of Gertrude Abercrombie, whose gatherings of artists and jazz musicians were legendary.〔
Another influence on Wilde’s early career was an art professor at the University of Wisconsin, James S. Watrous (1908–1999). A draughtsman, muralist, mosaicist and art historian, Watrous taught ‘old master’ methods of drawing and painting using the materials and techniques of European painting and drawing from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. He taught his students how to make their own inks, chalks and crayons from materials found in nature, how to craft reed and quill pens and how to prepare grounds for metal point drawing,〔James Watrous, The Craft of Old Master Drawing, Wisconsin University Press, April, 2002 ISBN 978-0-299-01425-4〕 including silver point, the medium in which Wilde became a modern master.〔Michael Duncan, “Heretics from the Heartland”, Art in America, February 2006〕 Wilde took Watrous's lessons to heart, poring over recipes for oil mediums and eventually formulating a secret mixture for use in his own work.〔
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