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Robert Lostutter BIOGRAPHY
Born 1939 Emporia, Kansas. Known for: Abstraction, figure-masked.
Attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1958-61 where he was influenced by John Rogers Cox, an academic painter who stressed traditional drawing and painting techniques. While there,... Read full biography
Attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1958-61 where he was influenced by John Rogers Cox, an academic painter who stressed traditional drawing and painting techniques. While there, he became associated with a group of artists known as the Chicago Imagists. This. group's work... Read full biography
Attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1958-61 where he was influenced by John Rogers Cox, an academic painter who stressed traditional drawing and painting techniques. While there, he became associated with a group of artists known as the Chicago Imagists. This. group's work tended towards incredibly intricate, detailed, surreal images full of whimsy and psychological tension. Following a trip to Mexico in the 1970s, Lostutter began a project that would come to dominate his... Read full biography
Attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1958-61 where he was influenced by John Rogers Cox, an academic painter who stressed traditional drawing and painting techniques. While there, he became associated with a group of artists known as the Chicago Imagists. This. group's work tended towards incredibly intricate, detailed, surreal images full of whimsy and psychological tension. Following a trip to Mexico in the 1970s, Lostutter began a project that would come to dominate his artistic production -- making drawings and paintings of strange hybrid bird-men with exotic, multicolored plumage fused into their faces and beaks and leaves growing from their bodies. Lives in Chicago. Exhibitions: Renaissance Society, 1984; Herron... Read full biography
Attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1958-61 where he was influenced by John Rogers Cox, an academic painter who stressed traditional drawing and painting techniques. While there, he became associated with a group of artists known as the Chicago Imagists. This. group's work tended towards incredibly intricate, detailed, surreal images full of whimsy and psychological tension. Following a trip to Mexico in the 1970s, Lostutter began a project that would come to dominate his artistic production -- making drawings and paintings of strange hybrid bird-men with exotic, multicolored plumage fused into their faces and beaks and leaves growing from their bodies. Lives in Chicago. Exhibitions: Renaissance Society, 1984; Herron Galleries, Indianapolis, 2006. Awards: Richard Florsheim Art Fund; NEA Grant; Illinois Arts Council Grant; three Log. SOURCES:. Susan Craig,... Read full biography
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Attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1958-61 where he was influenced by John Rogers Cox, an academic painter who stressed traditional drawing and painting techniques. While there, he became associated with a group of artists known as the Chicago Imagists. This
group's work tended towards incredibly intricate, detailed, surreal images full of whimsy and psychological tension. Following a trip to Mexico in the 1970s, Lostutter began a project that would come to dominate his artistic production -- making drawings and paintings of strange hybrid bird-men with exotic, multicolored plumage fused into their faces and beaks and leaves growing from their bodies. Lives in Chicago.
Exhibitions: Renaissance Society, 1984; Herron Galleries, Indianapolis, 2006.
Awards: Richard Florsheim Art Fund; NEA Grant; Illinois Arts Council Grant; three Logan Prizes and a Tuthill Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Collections: Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum; Illinois State Museum; Kansas City Art Institute; Milwaukee Art Museum; Madison Art Center; Museum of Contemporary Art; Smithsonian Institution; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Smart Museum; Springfield (MO) Art Museum.