Warrington colescott biography

Warrington Colescott, a printmaker and former art professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been described as a “social scold” and a “mad-dog attack artist” with a humorous and deeply humane side.

As an artist, he could touch a nerve.

He explored a range of subjects from the war in Afghanistan to ice fishing. His prints are characterized by dense, colorful, spectacle-like scenes and sharp insights.

He once wrote that he was interested in “that black zone between tragedy and high comedy, where a little pull or push one way or the other can transmute screams into laughter.”

Colescott died Sept.

10 at his home in Hollandale, Wis. He was 97.

“I think deep down he was a humanist,” says Mary Weaver Chapin, who curated a seminal retrospective of Colescott’s work for the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2010. “He would unveil these human foibles and mistakes and misguided actions and still seem to have a littl