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Jim Shaw — VisualArtsDB

Jim Shaw

b. 1952

Drawings & Prints Media and Performance

Jim Shaw American, born 1952

Timeline

Born 1952

1970s

Untitled

1980s

Nearsighted Couple on a Sunday Drive

Untitled

Stinking with Sin

The Andersons

+3

1990s

Study for Sinnorama #1, #2, #3

Hudson Bubble Gum

Hudson Bubble Gum

Hudson Pencil

Hudson Pencil

Dream Drawing (I had a bunch of junk and artwork...)

+10

2000s

Things Better Left Unsaid II

I Dreamt it Was OK to Draw Something I Haven't Dreamt About

Untitled

Dream Object (I Dreamt I was putting together this piece of abstract drawings)

+4

Works

30 artworks

Untitled

, 1979

Nearsighted Couple on a Sunday Drive

, 1981

Untitled

, 1981

Stinking with Sin

, 1981

The Andersons

, 1985

Study for Sin of Pride

, 1987

Study for Utopian Landscape #2 (Cloud Chamber)

, 1988

Study for Utopian Landscape #5 (Mound of Skulls)

, 1988

Study for Sinnorama #1, #2, #3

, 1990

Hudson Bubble Gum

Hudson Bubble Gum

, 1993

Hudson Pencil

Hudson Pencil

, 1993

Dream Drawing (I had a bunch of junk and artwork...)

, 1994

Dream Drawing (I was seeing an old atomic bomb test...)

, 1995

Dream Object ( At 5 a.m. I needed to get some money so I went to the bank cash machine...)

, 1996

Dream Object ( I was drawing a Pepsi sex float...)

, 1996

Dream Drawing (A comic story I was working on...)

, 1997

Dream Object ( I was at Linda's and found a stack of very old drawings...)

, 1997

Dream Drawing (We were waiting at a restaurant & 2 guys read an art tabloid...)

, 1997

Dream Drawing (I'm teaching a class in which some black students...)

, 1998

Dream Drawing (In Reno there was a Titanic mockup where a girl...)

, 1998

Dream Object ("I'm working on a psychedelic poster as part of a magazine but it may be too expensive to print, featuring kids in poses from the last supper at the bottom.")

, 1999

Land of Butter

, 1999

Things Better Left Unsaid II

, 2002

I Dreamt it Was OK to Draw Something I Haven't Dreamt About

, 2002

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