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Coal Train Not Quite Out of the Picture - Hearth by William T. Wiley

Coal Train Not Quite Out of the Picture - Hearth by William T. Wiley

Coal Train Not Quite Out of the Picture - Hearth

William T. Wiley

Title

Coal Train Not Quite Out of the Picture - Hearth

 
Artist

William T. Wiley

  1937 - 2021 (biography)
Year
1983  
Technique
watercolor and ink drawing 
Image Size
11 1/8 x 8 1/2" image 
Signature
initial in ink, lower left 
Edition Size
1 of 1 unique 
Annotations
ink titled and dated, beneath image 
Reference
 
Paper
cream watercolor paper 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
18260 
Price
SOLD
Description

This drawing/watercolor by California artist William T. Wiley was done in 1983. Wiley was one of the founders of Funk Art, a Northern California movement that started in the 1960's and began to bring back figurative elements to painting and sculpture. Wiley just had a one-man retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC. It was appropriately titled: “What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect.”

The New York Times review of December 29, 2009 praised his work thusly: "The one thread running throughout his oeuvre that has garnered near-universal admiration, and deservedly so, is his work in watercolor. Combining fine, black, felt-tip line drawing and luminous hues, his watercolors picture indoor and outdoor spaces and odd assortments of objects in such detail that it is as if you were seeing through mystically enhanced eyes."