The Chazen Museum of Art will host a reception for the exhibition “The Magic of John Wilde” from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Friday, June 4th. The event is free and open to the public. There will be refreshments and a cash bar.
According to the museum, “This exhibition of artwork by Wisconsin native John Wilde is taken from the Chazen Museum of Art’s collection and focuses on Wilde’s magic realist paintings and drawings from the 1940s to 1990s.”
Wilde, who was associated with the Magic Realism movement in the United States, taught drawing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1948 until his retirement in 1982. He occasionally collaborated with Warrington Colescott, whose work is the subject of an exhibition opening next week at the Milwaukee Museum of Art.
“The Magic of John Wilde runs through July 25th in the Mayer Gallery at at the Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Avenue, where admission is always free.
