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James Butler, At the Head of the Stairs, 1972
lithograph
21 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.

Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1945, James Butler received a B.S. from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1970. He has taught printmaking at Southern Illinois University and Illinois State University. Butler's work has been included in exhibitions of prints and drawings at numerous galleries and at the Minneapolis Museum of Art, St. Paul, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Butler's drawings and prints focus on surreal portrayals of everyday scenes, in which common objects are often depicted in unusual settings.