Artist

Jim Nutt

born Pittsfield, MA 1938
Also known as
  • James Nutt
  • James Tureman Nutt
Born
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States
Active in
  • Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Wilmette, Illinois, United States
Biography

Jim Nutt was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the son of a sales executive and a former bassoonist with the Denver Symphony. He attended various schools, studying drawing and architecture, but settled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1960. There Nutt met Gladys Nilsson, whom he married the following summer. He also made the acquaintance of some fellow students who began exhibiting together as the Hairy Who in 1965, the same year Nutt graduated from the Art Institute. In 1964 Nutt met Ray Yoshida, with whom he undertook independent study the following year. His first solo exhibition took place at the Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chicago in 1970. Nutt 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)

Exhibitions

Media - 1979.53.34 - SAAM-1979.53.34_2 - 134744
Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection
August 12, 2011March 4, 2012
Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection features twenty-five paintings, sculpture, and works on paper from 1960 to 1980, including works by Roger Brown, Leon Golub, Theodore Halkin, Vera Klement, Ellen Lanyon, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Barry Tinsley, and Ray