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Tag: Miyoko Ito

  • Auction Industry

    Artist to Know: Karl Wirsum

    Art by Founding Member of the Hairy Who Comes to Auction Karl Wirsum in 1973. Image courtesy of Mary Baber. As artists Jim Falconer and Jim Nutt started to scout shared exhibition spaces in 1960s Chicago, a mutual friend introduced them to another rising star of the city. Karl Wirsum…

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  • Artists

    Artist to Know: Miyoko Ito

    Paintings from Chicago Artist Come to Auction with Hindman For many years, Miyoko Ito was virtually unknown outside of Chicago. She painted abstract works with traces of Surrealism and Cubism during the 1960s and 70s. At the time, New York was embracing Pop Art, and many of Ito’s contemporaries in…

    Artist to Know Miyoko Ito