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WILLIAM WEEGE (1935-2020)
LONG LIVE LIFE. Suite #2. Set of 16 color prints in portfolio box. 1968.
21¼x25¼ inches, 54x64¼ cm. The Shenanigan Press, Ltd., Madison. Condition A: minor wear to fabric-covered portfolio box. Combination of serigraphy and lithography on Curtis Rag paper. Numbered in pencil "2 of 20 Weege 1968."
Box front has a label, added later, displaying title and edition and exhibit information. The back of each poster is signed "Weege 68" in pencil, and affixed with a gallery label.
Weege was a printmaker and artist. He was an MFA student at the University of Wisconsin Madison during the anti-Vietnam war protests that rocked the campus in 1967 - a protest movement that helped define his political work. He represented the United States at the 1970 Venice Biennale.
