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Born 1940 Chicago, Illinois. Known for: Modernist figural whimsey, imagist painting.
Gladys M. Nilsson is an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. Her paintings "set forth a surreal mixture of fantasy... Read full biography
Gladys M. Nilsson is an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. Her paintings "set forth a surreal mixture of fantasy and domesticity in a continuous parade of chaotic images." She is married to fellow-artist and... Read full biography
Gladys M. Nilsson is an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. Her paintings "set forth a surreal mixture of fantasy and domesticity in a continuous parade of chaotic images." She is married to fellow-artist and Hairy Who member Jim Nutt. Gladys Nilsson was born to Swedish immigrant parents. Her father was a factory worker for Sunbeam, and her mother a waitress. She attended the School of the Art Institute of... Read full biography
Gladys M. Nilsson is an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. Her paintings "set forth a surreal mixture of fantasy and domesticity in a continuous parade of chaotic images." She is married to fellow-artist and Hairy Who member Jim Nutt. Gladys Nilsson was born to Swedish immigrant parents. Her father was a factory worker for Sunbeam, and her mother a waitress. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she met her future husband, fellow student Jim Nutt. Nilsson and Nutt married in July 1961, and their son, Claude was born in 1962. Although Nilsson originally painted with oil paints, she switched to watercolors when pregnant in order to... Read full biography
Gladys M. Nilsson is an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. Her paintings "set forth a surreal mixture of fantasy and domesticity in a continuous parade of chaotic images." She is married to fellow-artist and Hairy Who member Jim Nutt. Gladys Nilsson was born to Swedish immigrant parents. Her father was a factory worker for Sunbeam, and her mother a waitress. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she met her future husband, fellow student Jim Nutt. Nilsson and Nutt married in July 1961, and their son, Claude was born in 1962. Although Nilsson originally painted with oil paints, she switched to watercolors when pregnant in order to avoid the hazards of turpentine. In 1963 Nilsson and Nutt were introduced to School of the Art Institute of Chicago art history p... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesArt Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995Fineberg, Jonathan496 pages (color)North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller612 pagesArt Today
1995Lucie-Smith, Edward512 pages (color)The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition)
1994LeClair, Charles144 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesSpirited Visions Portraits of Chicago Artists
1991
(Exhibition catalog)Carrol, Patty/James Yood96 pages (color)Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987Cummings, Paul653 pagesWho's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesArt in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985Albright, Thomas349 pages (color)American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985Krantz, Les347 pages (color)American Art Now
1985Lucie-Smith, Edward160 pages (color)Works on Paper 77th Exhibition/Artists of Chicago
1978
(Exhibition catalog)Art Institute of Chicago24 pagesChicago, The City and Its Artists 1945-1978
1978
(Exhibition catalog)Kirkpatrick, D/Charles Lewis215 pagesContemporary Figurative Painting in the Midwest Invitational Exhibition at the Madison Art Center
1977
(Exhibition catalog)Wilfer, Joseph E. (Intro)52 pagesThe Chicago Connection West Coast '76
1976
(Exhibition catalog)McKillop, Susan/Roger Clisby87 pages (color)Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974Baur, John I H235 pages (color)Made in Chicago
1974
(Exhibition catalog)Halstead, Whitney79 pages (color)Fantastic Images Chicago Art since 1945
1972Schulze, Franz223 pages (color)Human Concern/Personal Torment The Grotesque in American Art
1969
(Exhibition catalog)Doty, Robert72 pages (color)