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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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Keywords (21)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Chicago Imagist (Rebellion Against Norms of Art, Society)
- •Expressive, Expressionist, Expressionism
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Fantasy, Fancy, Fables, Dreams, Visions, Mystery, Creatures
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
Art Association
- •The Hairy Who-Imagist
Art Teacher
- •Whitney Halstead
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Married to an Artist
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Swedish
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art