About the Exhibition
Wilde’s Wildes
A Very Private Collection
Past Exhibition
June 13–September 6, 2015
MOWA | West Bend
About the Exhibition
June 13–September 6
Hyde Gallery
In 1943, when Alfred H. Barr, Jr. of The Museum of Modern Art surveyed the national art scene, he dubbed a particular group “magic realists.”
John Wilde was one of these artists. He enjoyed a very successful seven-decade career, from which he and his wife retained a signature collection of his works. For Wilde, art was a form of psychological self-analysis as well as a vehicle to explore universal issues, which he found in his imagination and in the fertile Wisconsin landscape.
Image: John Wilde, An American Interior, 1942 (detail)