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American
(1928–2003)
Flower Flag
circa 1954
Oil on canvas
20.75 x 16.625 x 1.125 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
2004.36
Wally Hedrick has a place all his own in the history of California art, or places might be more accurate, considering the diversity of his work. Robert Arneson considered him the godfather of funk art, the Bay Area’s highly personal and often absurdist sculpture of the late 1960s. Hedrick has also been credited as a progenitor of pop, conceptual, and kinetic art, crossing boundaries and creating hybrid art forms that are difficult to categorize (such as his “light machine,” which projected colored lights to the sounds of its electric keyboard). Hedrick’s free-spirited experimentalism can be traced to his roots in San Francisco’s counterculture, where cross-pollination of all the arts was encouraged in venues like the Six Gallery, which Hedrick cofounded. Hedrick is said to have personally invited Allen Ginsberg there in the fall of 1955 to read “Howl,” the poem that shook the literary world and ushered in the beat generation.
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