Plug Bug

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Plug Bug

Entry/Object ID

2016.125

Description

Promo poster for Gallery 37 showing a print of an insect like creature with eight limbs - four arms and four legs.

Artwork Details

Medium

screenprint

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Chuck Thurow

Made/Created

Artist

Wirsum, Karl

Date made

1992

Ethnography

Notes

North America United States

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Location

Center recto

Transcription

To Chuck Karl Wirsum

Notes

Inscription Type: Black ink

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

Chicago Imagist, posters, information artifacts, information forms (objects), anthropomorphic, figure-derived form attributes, form attributes, zoomorphic, geometric patterns, patterns (design elements), design elements (attributes), fantasies (visual works), visual works (works), repetition (artistic concept), formal concepts (artistic concept), artistic concepts

Hierarchy Name

Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Attributes and Properties (hierarchy name), Design Elements (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)

Facet

Styles and Periods Facet, Objects Facet, Physical Attributes Facet, Associated Concepts Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall

Width

20 in

Length

32-3/4 in