Bob "Daddy-O" Wade

Male, Person

1943 –

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Who is Bob "Daddy-O" Wade?

Bob "Daddy-O" Wade is an artist in Austin, Texas who helped shape the 1970s Texas Cosmic Cowboy counterculture. A retrospective of his work was exhibited at the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture in the fall of 2009. He is best known for his creating oversized sculptures of Texas symbols and for experimenting with hand-tinting black-and-white vintage photographs transferred to large photo-emulsion canvases. His 40-foot-long Giant Iguana sat on top of the Lone Star Cafe in New York City in 1978.

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Born
1943
Austin
Education
  • University of California, Berkeley

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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