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|  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.
Nilsson's work can be described as colorful, generally small in scale expressionist watercolors that depict whimsical figures in intricate arrangements. While her main medium is watercolor, Nilsson also paints in acrylic.
Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Milwaukee Art Museum; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Nilsson is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, Austria; and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
Source:
Les Krantz, "American Artists, Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Artists"
http://www.adrian.edu/news_&_info/gladysnilsson_fa02.htm
http://www.artic.edu/saic/programs/faculty/facbios2.html#gnilsson
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