Self-Portrait
<p>One of the instigators of the Hairy Who, Jim Nutt has been based in Chicago since he moved here to study at SAIC in 1960, aside from a brief interlude spent teaching in California. During his early years, he worked as a preparator for Allan Frumkin Gallery, where he had access to prints by James Ensor, Paul Klee, and Edvard Munch, all of which had a powerful effect on his vision. This jocular self-portrait was made during an etching class with Vera Berdich, and it betrays Nutt’s knowledge of the unusual textural methods used by Ensor and Klee.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1960
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 18.7 × 20 cm (7 3/8 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 32 cm (10 1/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Jim Nutt
Artist
Painting
James T. Nutt is an American artist who was a founding member of the Chicago surrealist art movement known as the Chicago Imagists, or the Hairy Who. Though his work is inspired by the same pop culture that inspired Pop Art, journalist Web Behrens says Nutt's "paintings, particularly his later works, are more accomplished than those of the more celebrated Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein." According to Museum of Contemporary Art curator Lynne Warren, Nutt is "the premier artist of his generation". Nutt attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois. He is married to fellow-artist and Hairy Who member Gladys Nilsson.
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- Art Institute of Chicago
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- aic
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