With over forty museum shows under her belt, Gladys Nilsson’s satirical paintings have attained national recognition in the contemporary American art scene. Her watercolors were first embraced by her Chicago Imagist contemporaries of the 1960s who shared similar attitudes towards narrative themes and expressions of the human psyche such as the Hairy Who group. Each work of art celebrates the artist’s unending curiosity for human behavior: rituals of courtship, gastronomic delights, and narcissistic passions. Her figures, bulbous and supple, are anthropological wonders colliding in a world of luscious color.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum Modem Kunst, Vienna, Austria; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
PEEKY GLADE, Watercolor and Gouache, 7 1/16 x 10 3/16"
FLOWER GIRL, Watercolor and Gouache, 5 1/4 x 5 1/4"
MIXED PLACES, Watercolor and Gouache, 15 x 22 1/2"
LEASHED, Watercolor and Gouache, 7 1/8 x 10 1/4"
TELLING, Watercolor and Gouache, 7 x 5"
CHATTER, Watercolor and Gouache, 5 1/4 x 5 1/4"
TEA-LESS, Watercolor and Gouache, 9 x 12"
WALK, Watercolor and Gouache, 12 x 9"
SEE SIDE, Watercolor and Gouache, 11 x 15"
FALL WALL, Watercolor and Gouache, 10 1/4 x 7 1/16"
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