115: ULFERT WILKE (1907-1987) EXHIBITED INK WORK ON PAPER

Ulfert S. Wilke (1907-1987)
Untitled 1967 (1967)
The abstraction in black ink on paper is signed lower right. An exhibition label from the San Francisco Museum of Art November - December 1971 is pasted verso.
Image measures 25.25 x 16.25, sheet is 30 x 20, and frame is 30.75 x 21.5 inches.
Obviously the condition is very good, very clean, intact, no visible stain, damage, repair, punctures or tears. This work has not been examined outside the frame.

Ulfert Wilke was a German born artist who came to the United States in 1938. He studied at Harvard and the University of Iowa, where he went on to became an influential figure in the Midwest arts community, serving as artist, educator and curator. His biography includes work as teacher and director at various universities and museums. In 1969, he became founding director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art and was instrumental in acquiring the museum's cornerstone piece: Jackson Pollock's Mural from 1943.

Wilke's work is characterized and inspired by his fascination with the aesthetics of written characters, various types of sign systems, and calligraphy in particular, which he studied for a time in Japan. In this composition of abstracted symbols, symbols float in an organized interplay of unique characters moving about in one large composition.
$400 - $800