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In Wolfman (Wall), Jim Dine draws from one of the major sources for Pop Art: the movies. The face is a photoetching of an image of actor Lon Chaney, Jr. in his 1941 role in the movie “Wolfman.” The text refers to an encounter with some dogs, thus, apparently, linking that fearful experience to the terror inspired by the movie. Like Cottingham’s Fox, the image has an element of nostalgia as it refers to a movie made when Dine was a child. The gorilla in the upper right may be “King Kong,” the title character in another classic horror film of 1933.
Dine seems to have developed the print in two stages. First he silkscreened the paper with the lettering, the broken heart and the gorilla. Then he ran this sheet over an etching plate in the shape of the wolfman’s face, thus embossing it into the paper. The raised edge of the plate mark enhances the three-dimensionality of the image.