Painter Gladys Nilsson, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1940, gained recognition in the late 1960s as an artist and founder of "The Hairy Who," the Chicago-based group of Expressionist painters who were responsible for a funky style known as Chicago Imagism.
Nilsson earned her diploma from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1962. She is now an adjunct associate professor of painting and drawing there. She received a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
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