The other night I revisited the Hector Babenco film Ironweed, based on William Kennedy�s 1984 novel about Francis Phelan, a one-time baseball pitcher turned alcoholic drifter who returns to his hometown. The movie reminded me of Tony Fitzpatrick�s latest series of collages based on hobo legend and lore, and then, […]
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Tony Fitzpatrick’s city of ghosts
In the Chicago Sun-Times Kevin Nance profiles Tony Fitzpatrick, whose expeditions with his dad have become the central narrative of his just-completed magnum opus: ‘The Wonder — Portraits of a Remembered City,’ a simultaneously intimate and epic series of drawing-collages commemorating his father and the city they explored together. “The […]
