Gladys Nilsson is married to fellow-artist and Hairy Who member Jim Nutt.
10 Facts About Gladys Nilsson
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Gladys Nilsson grew up on the north side of Chicago and attended Lake View High School, while attending extracurricular drawing classes.
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Gladys Nilsson and Nutt married in July 1961, and their son, Claude, was born in 1962.
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Gladys Nilsson introduced them in turn to Don Baum, exhibition director at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.
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Gladys Nilsson's image is included in the 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.
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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.
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Gladys Nilsson took the human figure as her main subject, magnifying, multiplying, and distorting these figures as she saw fit.
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In 1964, Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson began to teach children's classes at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.
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In 1973, Gladys Nilsson became the first Hairy Who member to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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Gladys Nilsson had a retrospective of her art in the spring of 2010 at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago.