John Wilde has been called an American Surrealist.
His environment "makes even the most outrageous things seem perfectly natural...artists sketch while seated on large balls floating high above the countryside; lovely ladies pop up out of sardine cans; giant eggplants dominate rural landscapes, birds with women's legs scamper along beaches; and assorted nudes, elegant gentlemen, strange beasts and fantastic birds promenade in beautiful, open parks." 1
1 .Theodore F. Wolff, "Artists at Work," Christian Science Monitor
Wilde was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in l9l9. He received his B.S. and his M.S. from the University of Wisconsin. He taught drawing, specializing in silver point, at the University of Wisconsin and is presently Professor Emeritus, devoting full time to painting and drawing.
"Wilde has received a number of significant awards, among them the Lambert Purchase Award in l963 from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Childe Hassam Purchase Award in l965 and l980 from the National Academy of Design; a Purchase Award in l984 from the West Publishing Company, Atlanta; and a First Purchase Award in l970 from the Butler Gallery of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio.
John Wilde's work is represented in the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Detroit Institute; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; and in many other public and private collections." 2
2 .Hedy O'Beil, "John Wilde," Arts 59 (October 1984)
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