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| DUDLEY HUPPLER. "Lion-Tailed Monk." Black ink, watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper, 20" x 11 3/4" (image), 20 1/2" x 14" (sheet), signed in ink lower left, titled in pencil on the verso. The "monk," which is rendered by an immense quantity of tonal dots, is displayed against a yellow wash ground, the lower quarter of the sheet white-painted (over the yellow ground, that is, which shows through the white patchily). A number of wrinkles to the stout sheet, primarily restricted to the lower (white-painted) margin and the extreme left and right margins, though there is a prominent six-inch long crease in the upper corner of the sheet; tape remains along the edges, verso of sheet; four skinned areas (between 1/2" and 1 1/2" in diameter) along the edges, verso of sheet; slight surface soiling. Unframed. Circa 1950. Dudley Huppler (1917-1988). Born: Muscoda, WI. Studied: University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A. in English). Taught English and art at Universities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado and Iowa. His drawings were published in "Art Digest," "Art News," "Flair," "House Beautiful," "View" and "Vogue." A 2002 exhibition, "Dudley Huppler: Drawings" at the Elvehjem Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin, included the following in its press release: "During the 1940s, Huppler was part of an advanced circle of artists, composers and writers in Madison, Wisconsin...The group was linked to friends in Chicago and Milwaukee...Huppler went to New York in 1950 where he established friendships with photographers Otto Fenn, George Platt Lynes and Carl van Vechten. He also met writers Charles Henri Ford, Katharine Ann Porter, Glenway Wescott and Marianne Moore, who referred to Huppler as her literary protégé and praised his drawings. In New York Huppler showed at Edwin Hewitt's gallery, a relationship initiated by John Wilde...In 1954, through Otto Fenn, Huppler began a friendship with Andy Warhol, then a successful commercial artist. Huppler and Warhol corresponded for many years and exchanged drawings. In spring 1955, Huppler was awarded a Yaddo Residence grant...While living in New York City in the mid-1950s, Huppler designed windows for Bonwitt Teller and sold his drawings to advertisers and manufacturers such as the Parker Pen Company. Huppler was also awarded two Huntington Hartford Foundation residence grants during the early 1960s. Like the artists he admired, Huppler was attracted to the sensuality of drawing. He possessed a talent for revealing the humor in nature or delighting in the mystery of objects and their natural transformations. His work is marked by an unusual, meticulous technique which he used to form birds, stone, grass, flowers and other natural elements from tiny gradations of tonal dots...There are few solid lines in his works after 1945; everything is composed through varying densities of tiny dots. His earliest work, dating from late 1943 is a kind of hard-edged biomorphic surrealism; in the late 40s to early 50s he made still-life studies and drawings of animals combined with unusual glassware; after trips to Italy in the 1950s he turned towards the fantastic in nature..." A 104-page catalog was published in conjunction with the exhibition. | ||||||
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