Wireman
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 9:25AM
[chuck] in American Folk Art Museum, Art, wire sculpture

 

The wire sculpture shown above was photographed at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. The piece was found - along with approximately 1,500 more just like it - in garbage bags in an alley of an African-American neighborhood in Philadelphia. The artist, known simply as the Philadelphia Wireman, relied on discarded materials such as tape, newspaper, ribbon, glass, buttons, and scrap metal to produce the whimsical creations. 

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