Screamin' Jay Hawkins

1. The artist; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 16, 1969.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• The Art Institute of Chicago, 72nd Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago & Vicinity, Mar. 22–Apr. 20, 1969, cat. 100.
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Imagist Art, May 13–June 25, 1972, no cat. no; New York City, Cultural Center, July 21–Aug. 27. 1972.
• London, Camden Arts Centre, Who Chicago?: An Exhibition of Contemporary Imagists, Dec. 10, 1980–Jan. 25, 1981, cat. 54 (as Screamin’ J. Hawkins); Sunderland, England, Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland Arts Centre, Feb. 16–Mar. 14, 1981; Glasgow, Third Eye Centre, Mar. 21–Apr. 30, 1981 (closed Apr. 18); Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, May 16–June 28, 1981; Swansea, Wales, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, July 11–Aug. 8, 1981; Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Nov. 10, 1981-Jan. 3, 1982; New Orleans, Contemporary Arts Center, Jan. 15, 1982-Mar. 1, 1982.
• Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois, Karl Wirsum Retrospective, Jan. 12–Feb. 17, 1991, no cat. no. (as Screamin’ J. Hawkins).
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art in Chicago, 1945–1995, Nov. 16, 1996–Mar. 23, 1997, cat. 64.
• Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Karl Wirsum: Winsome Works (Some), Apr. 14, 2007–June 24, 2007, cat. 18 (as Screamin’ J. Hawkins).
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Sept. 29, 2007–Jan. 6, 2008, no cat. no; Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, May 31, 2008–Sept. 8, 2008; Montréal, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Oct. 8, 2008–Jan. 11, 2009.
• Milan, Fondazione Prada, Famous Artists from Chicago, Oct. 20, 2017–Jan. 15, 2018, cat. 84.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Hairy Who? 1966–1969, Sept. 26, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 212.
• New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Sixties Surreal, Sept. 24, 2025–Jan. 19, 2026, no cat. no.

• Dennis Adrian, "Form in Chicago," Art Scene, 2, no. 7 (April, 1969): 15 (ill.).
• Charles C. Cunningham, 72nd Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago & Vicinity, exh. cat (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 6, 26 (ill.), cat. 100.
• Franz Schulze, Fantastic Images: Chicago Art since 1945 (Chicago: Pollett Pub. Co., 1972), 181 (color ill.).
• Franz Schulze, Chicago Imagist Art, exh cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1972), n.p. (color ill.).
• Dennis Adrian, Russell Bowman, Tony Knipe, Who Chicago?: An Exhibition of Contemporary Imagists, exh. cat. (Sunderland, England: Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland Arts Centre, 1980), 164 (ill.), 202, as Screamin’ J. Hawkins.
• Paul Krainak, "Art Comes to Marketplace Rock" Aquarian Weekly, Apr. 25, 1984, n.p. (ill.).
• David A. Lauer, Design Basics, 3rd ed. (Ft. Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1990), 61 (ill).
• Dennis Adrian, Karl Wirsum: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (Urbana-Champaign, Ill: Krannert Art Museum, 1991) 7 (ill.), 39, as Screamin’ J. Hawkins.
• Lynne Warren and Jeff Abell, Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, exh. cat. (New York, N.Y: Thames and Hudson, 1996), 25, 134, 181 (color ill.), 303.
• Lanny Silverman and John Hallmark Neff, Karl Wirsum: Winsome Works (Some), exh. cat. (Chicago: Department of Cultural Affairs, 2007), 11, 12, 28, n.p. (color ill.), as Screamin’ J. Hawkins.
• Dominic Molon and Diedrich Diederichsen, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, exh. cat (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007), 215, 222, 223 (color ill.), 252 (color ill.).
• Germano Celant, Sue Ann Kendall, Famous Artists from Chicago, exh. cat. (Milan, Fondazione Prada, 2017), 24 (color ill.), 28.

Back Teria One Oh! One

Art Institute of Chicago

Youdue

Art Institute of Chicago

Macy's Jet Set

Art Institute of Chicago

You Scratch My Back and I'll Scratch Yours

Art Institute of Chicago

First Portrait of the Brand New Star, from Screen Prints 1970

Art Institute of Chicago

Lana Turner with Her Own Eyebrows Before Schrafft's Drug Store

Art Institute of Chicago

Cheek-Cargo's Own Eddie Foy

Art Institute of Chicago

Apple-Polished Zombunny

Art Institute of Chicago

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