Illinois. Born 1938
Surreal-modernist whimsey
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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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Slide 1 of 3: Dipdick...Adam and Eve after Cranach, 1971
Dipdick...Adam and Eve after Cranach, 1971
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Untitled (Hairy Legged, Star TattooedGiantess in Striped Dress Skipping Rope), c. 1965
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Illinois, California. 1939 - 2021
Drawing, funk figure-faces, "Hairy Who," imagist, sculpture, drawing
New York, Nova Scotia / Canada. 1929 - 2024
Abstract figure, modernist kinetic sculpture, painting
Indiana, District Of Columbia. Born 1934
Large-scale abstract-figurative, genre
Illinois. 1924 - 1981
Grotesque figurative images, part of Monster Roster movement
California, Indiana. 1937 - 2021
Abstraction, funk art,caligraphy, teaching
Connecticut, California. 1922 - 1981
Wooden sculpture-mod droll imagery and found object
Illinois. 1939 - 2004
Modernist portrait and figure, illustrator
New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, California / France. 1934 - 2018
Abstract inhumanity, war-themed image painting, pastel specialty
Oregon, California. 1943 - 2013
Whimsical sculpture-frogs, foodstuff, funk art, teaching
Illinois. 1941 - 1997
Abstract landscape painting, ceramics, imagist artist
California, Nebraska. 1930 - 2007
Modernist naive drollery painting, funk collage
Illinois. 1935 - 2023
Biomorphic, nature themed sculpture, found objects, graphics
Massachusetts. 1906 - 2001
Abstract-micro-organic, collage
New York, Illinois. 1922 - 2004
Modernist morose figure-genre and portrait painting, collage
Illinois, Kansas. Born 1939
Abstraction, figure-masked
California. 1930 - 1992
Funk ceramic pop image ceramics, mixed media
Illinois, Indiana. 1948 - 2001
Naive modernist imagery, graphics
Wisconsin. 1919 - 2006
Paintings of surreal fanciful images, illustration
New York / Germany. 1926 - 1987
Abstract collages, wood assemblage, textiles
Illinois, Michigan, Ohio. 1899 - 1965
Urban scene and landscape painting, prints, teaching
Illinois. 1943 - 2014
Anthropomorphic chair sculpture, assemblage
Missouri. 1927 - 2009
Sculpture, assemblage, abstraction
New York, California. Born 1949
Sculpture, mod figure, floral, collage, prints, architect
Connecticut, New York. 1919 - 2010
Modernist street people figure and genre painting, teaching
Illinois, Arizona. 1886 - 1972
Naive dream-landscape, outsider art
Illinois, Hawaii. 1930 - 2009
Collage-Chicago imagism, geometric, funk cartoons
California. 1935 - 2018
Super flashy nude, pop icon painting, superheroes
New York / Germany, France. 1901 - 1978
Robotic modernist figure, hard-edge form painting, teaching
New York. Born 1955
Mod marine, amorphous life forms
New York, Rhode Island. 1931 - 2022
Abstraction, assemblage, wall-mouonted sculpture
Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1937 - 1966
Figurative expressionist painting, religion