Artist
Wilfrid R. Addey
Wilfrid R. Addey is an Art Brut artist. 18 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Wilfrid R. Addey made spare, ink-and-watercolor snapshots of mid-century America. His sheet shows a late-1940s pin-up in a purple bikini with a lit cigarette, quick lines catching the pose and the glow of a club lamp. Flip to his other sheet to watch a racing car punch through a finish-line banner or scan his city crane scene, all sharp angles and wet washes. Slide over to the 1950 drawing of a chrome-finned American car—chrome gleams like wet metal under his nib.
Works by Wilfrid R. Addey
- 'Pin-up' girl speaking on the telephone with a letter in her hand
- 'Pin-up' girl with pink hair wearing a black lace slip
- 'Pin-up' girl wearing a slip, stockings and suspenders
- 'Pin-up' girl as Eve with the serpent
'Pin-up' wearing a loin cloth and jewellery
Cranes in a City
'Pin-up' in Hawaiian costume
'Pin-up' with pink hair in brassiere, corset and black stockings
'Pin-up' wearing a purple bikini and smoking a cigarette
'Pin-up' girl wearing a bikini and brushing her hair
View across a bridge to a modern city
Drawing of a car
Woman in eighteenth century dress and masque
An American car
A Sports car in a workshop
A Racing car coming through the finish line
Hawker Tempest and parachute
An Evening party
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.
- 'Pin-up' in Hawaiian costume
- 'Pin-up' with pink hair in brassiere, corset and black stockings
- 'Pin-up' wearing a purple bikini and smoking a cigarette
- 'Pin-up' girl wearing a bikini and brushing her hair
- View across a bridge to a modern city
- Drawing of a car
- Woman in eighteenth century dress and masque
- An American car