A major figure in Wisconsin art, Fred Stonehouse is nationally recognized for his beautifully executed artwork and witty sense of rebellion. His style has a sophistication that reflects his diverse, cross-cultural interests, and outsider and folk art influences. Often encompassing religious or surreal contexts, his paintings are a materialization of his nostalgia for familiar cartoon figures of the past, blended with the artist's own delicate balance of humor, beauty and derangement. The artist, a Milwaukee native, has enjoyed over fifteen museum exhibitions across the country including a retrospective at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and has been featured in Blab and Juxtapose magazines.
Fred Stonehouse SELECTED COLLECTIONS Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI; Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI; University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
Selections from the Natural History Portfolio of Marshall Deerfield
Witness the legacy of artifacts and original drawings left behind by Marshall Deerfield, a surveyor of nature born in 1850 in England. As the story goes, Deerfield relocated to Wisconsin as a young adult but vanished soon after and was never heard from again. A vast portfolio of nature studies was recovered from his abandoned cabin and as the renderings reveal, isolation in the sparsely populated area aggravated Deerfield’s familial tendencies towards schizophrenia.
MARSH CAT, Acrylic, Ink and Beeswax on Paper, 7 1/2 x 11 3/4"
Acrylic, Ink and Beeswax on Reclaimed Book Covers CHUPPAE, 7 3/4 x 5" and YAM, 7 x 4 1/2" and FIELD APRON, 5 1/4 x 8"
MARSH APPLE, Acrylic and Ink on Reclaimed Wood Panel, 8 x 10"
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