Gladys Nilsson
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| Born | Gladys M. Nilsson May 6, 1940 Chicago Imagism |
| Spouse | Jim Nutt |
Gladys M. Nilsson (born May 6, 1940) is an American artist, and one of the original
Biography
Gladys Nilsson was born to Swedish immigrant parents. She grew up on the north side of Chicago and attended Lake View High School, while also attending extracurricular drawing classes. Nilsson later attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she met her future husband, fellow student Jim Nutt.[2] Nilsson and Nutt married in July 1961, and their son, Claude, was born in 1962.[2] Although Nilsson originally painted with oil paints, she switched to watercolors when pregnant in order to avoid the hazards of turpentine.[2]
In 1963, Nilsson and Nutt were introduced to School of the Art Institute of Chicago art history professor Whitney Halstead, who became a teacher, mentor, and friend.[2] He introduced them in turn to Don Baum, exhibition director at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.[2] In 1964 Nilsson and Nutt became youth instructors at the Hyde Park Art Center.[2]
Nilsson's image is included in the 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.[3]
Artistic style
Gladys Nilsson's influences were far ranging and included
According to the Chicago Tribune, her paintings "set forth a surreal mixture of fantasy and domesticity in a continuous parade of chaotic images."[4]
The Hairy Who Years
In 1964, Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson began to teach children's classes at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. The pair and James Falconer approached the center's exhibitions director, Don Baum, with the idea of a group show consisting of the three of them and
Later career
In 1969, Chicago gallery owner
Though she has traditionally painted with watercolors on paper, Nilsson has also worked with collage. In her later work, Nilsson cut out imagery from fashion magazines in an exploration of ideals of feminine beauty.[7]
She had a retrospective of her art in the spring of 2010 at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago.
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
1971
- Gladys Nilsson, Art Gallery, Chico State College, Chico, California
- Gladys Nilsson, Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, California
1973
- Gladys Nilsson, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 12–May 13
1979
- Gladys Nilsson, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon, January 18–February 18
1979–1980
- Gladys Nilsson: Survey of Works on Paper, 1967–1979, Fine Arts Gallery, Corpus Christi State University, Texas, January 8–31, 1980; Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin, February 17–March 23, 1980
1984
- Gladys Nilsson: Greatest Hits from Chicago, Selected Works 1967–1984, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, May 5–June 23
- Gladys Nilsson, Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, California, November
1993
- Sum Daze: Hand-Colored Etchings by Gladys Nilsson, Dime Museum, Chicago, September 10–October 4
1996
- Gladys Nilsson, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, March–April
2000
- Gladys Nilsson, Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, February 3–March 3
2003
- Gladys Nilsson, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan, January 6–25
- Gladys Nilsson, University Art Gallery, Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, Michigan, October 3–29
2006
- Gladys Nilsson, Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, January 21–February 26
2010
- Gladys Nilsson: Works from 1966–2010, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, April 9–May 23
Collections
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- Art Institute of Chicago[8]
- Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Indiana[9]
- Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, Lansing
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
- Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia
- Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
- Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
- Milwaukee Art Museum
- Morgan Library, New York
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
- New Orleans Museum of Art
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Phoenix Art Museum
- Roger Brown Study Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
References
- ^ Barbara B. Buchholz, "Chicago's Style: Gutsy, Independent, Defiant: A New Show Captures Our Artistic Traits: Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson: Two from the Who's Who of the Hairy Who", Chicago Tribune Magazine, December 1, 1996, pp. 14-21
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Christine Newman, "When Jim Met Gladys", "Chicago" Magazine, Vol. 60 No. 2, February 2011, pp. 78-81,92,146-148,164
- ^ "Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ Lisa Stein, "Nilsson's Colors Continue to Get More Intense", Chicago Tribune, Thursday, October 15, 1998, section 2, page 5
- ^ Dan Nadel, "Hairy Who's history of the Hairy Who." The Ganzfeld 3. New York: Monday Morning, 2003. p. 121-2.
- ^ Smith, Roberta (10 October 2018). "Phyllis Kind, Art Dealer Who Took In Outsiders, Dies at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ Rudick, Nicole (November 24, 2014). "Eye Contact: An Interview with Gladys Nilsson".
- ^ "Gladys Nilsson". The Art Institute of Chicago. 1940. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
- ^ eazel. "eazel | exhibitions beyond limits". eazel.net. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
External links
- Gladys Nilsson in Art in America Magazine
- Gladys Nilsson on Garth Greenan Gallery
- Gladys Nilsson on Artsy
- Gladys Nilsson on Hyperallergic
- Gladys Nilsson on BOMB Magazine
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