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| Work by the Philadelphia Wireman at the Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary, and Outsider Art |
The Philadelphia Wireman is the name given to an unknown artist responsible for around 1,200 small-scare wire-frame sculptures. The sculptures were found by a passerby on a street outside of a transient home in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania in 1982.
It's been hypothesized that it may be possible that the statues were abandoned after the artist's death. This is unknown though as the artist is unknown. It's assumed that the artist had access to tools that helped with the bending of heavy-gauge wire. Some of the sculptures are believed to resemble African art and due to the demographic of the area, it's believed that they may have been African American.
In 1999 according to the Fleischer-Ollman Gallery, a visitor came and identified the street the art was found on. The visitor stated that they had seen an elderly black man working on the sculptures around 1970, but it's still unknown who the artist is.
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