Artist

Gladys Nilsson

born Chicago, IL 1940
Born
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Active in
  • Wilmette, Illinois, United States
Biography

Gladys Nilsson attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1950s, where she met the artists who would begin exhibiting in 1965 as a group named the Hairy Who. She married one of these artists, Jim Nutt, in 1961. As one of the prominent Chicago Imagists, Nilsson is primarily a watercolorist who paints colorfully patterned scenes dominated by odd, often comical, figures. Her first solo exhibition took place at the Portland Visual Arts Center in Oregon. She lives in Chicago.

National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996)

Works by this artist (8 items)

Theodore Roszak, Recording Sound, 1932, plaster and oil on wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1989.25
Recording Sound
Date1932
plaster and oil on wood
On view
Theodore Roszak, Maquette for Eagle, ca. 1962-1966, cut and soldered brass mounted on wood base, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration, Art-in-Architecture Program, 1980.128.15
Maquette for Eagle
Dateca. 1962-1966
cut and soldered brass mounted on wood base
On view
Theodore Roszak, Thistle in the Dream (To Louis Sullivan), 1955-1956, cut and welded steel, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1986.6.74
Thistle in the Dream (To Louis Sullivan)
Date1955-1956
cut and welded steel
Not on view
Theodore Roszak, Staten Island, 1934, color lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1989.15
Staten Island
Date1934
color lithograph on paper
Not on view