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Gladys Nilsson (Gladys M. Nilsson) was born on 6 May, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American painter. Discover Gladys Nilsson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 6 May, 1940
Birthday 6 May
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1940

Gladys M. Nilsson (born May 6, 1940) is an American artist, and one of the original Hairy Who Chicago Imagists, a group of representational artists active during the 1960s and 1970s.

She is married to fellow-artist and Hairy Who member Jim Nutt.

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.

1961

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.

1963

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.

He introduced them in turn to Don Baum, exhibition director at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.

1964

In 1964 Nilsson and Nutt became youth instructors at the Hyde Park Art Center.

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 Art Green and Suellen Rocca.

Baum agreed, and also suggested they include Karl Wirsum.

The name of the group show, "Hairy Who?", became the name of the group.

It was coined by Karl Wirsum as a reference to WFMT art critic Harry Bouras.

1966

There were exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969.

1968

The 1968 exhibition traveled to the San Francisco Art Institute, and the last show, in 1969, traveled to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

1969

In 1969, Chicago gallery owner Phyllis Kind agreed to represent Nilsson and Nutt, giving both of them their first solo shows.

The same year, the couple moved to Sacramento, California, where Nutt worked as an assistant professor of art at Sacramento State College.

1972

Nilsson's image is included in the 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.

1973

In 1973, Nilsson became the first Hairy Who member to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Two of her paintings were stolen from the show.

1974

In 1974, Nilsson and her family returned to Chicago, moving to Wilmette in 1976.

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.

2010

She had a retrospective of her art in the spring of 2010 at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago.

2015

Gladys Nilsson's influences were far ranging and included German Expressionism, 15th Century Italian painting, Egyptian tomb murals, Cubism, and, more specifically, Whitney Halstead, Kathleen Blackshear, James Ensor, George Grosz, Paul Klee, Georges Seurat, John Marin, and Charles Burchfield.

The result was a style that bordered on surrealism and pop, fantasy and cartoon.

She took the human figure as her main subject, magnifying, multiplying, and distorting these figures as she saw fit.

According to the Chicago Tribune, her paintings "set forth a surreal mixture of fantasy and domesticity in a continuous parade of chaotic images."