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
Robert Lostutter - Artist Info
About Robert Lostutter: Books
Books & Publications (9)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years Of Printmaking
1996
Ruzicka, Joseph
220 pages (color)
Spirited Visions Portraits of Chicago Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Carrol, Patty/James Yood
96 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
Chicago Some Other Traditions (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Adrian, Dennis (intro)
101 pages (color)
Works on Paper 77th Exhibition/Artists of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Art Institute of Chicago
24 pages
The Chicago Connection West Coast '76 (Exhibition catalog)