Robert Lostutter’s quixotic heads, tightly enclosed in bird feathers or flower petals, gaze serenely, as if it were the most natural look in the world. The artist's watercolors are ultra meticulous, riveting and unexplainable. They possess an alluring strangeness with surrealist qualities. Read an interview with the artist in our Press Pages.
"I carry a pocket notebook everywhere I go...When I go to the movies, I look down the aisle at peoples' ears. I register variations in ears in my notebook -- or I may go back home and draw them from memory. Sometimes I just stop what I'm doing and draw." -Robert Lostutter
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Illinois State Museum, Normal, IL; Kansas City Art Institute, MO; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Madison Art Center, WI; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Smart Museum, University of Chicago, IL; Springfield Art Museum, MO
GARDEN OF OPIATES, Graphite on Paper, 10 x 10"
RIBBON-TAILED BIRD OF PARADISE II, Watercolor on Paper, 9 3/8 x 8" - sold
LUST, Pencil on Paper, 3 1/4 x 3 1/4"
ORCHIDLIP, Pencil on Paper, 18 x 18"
LEPANTHES VELIFERA, Lithograph, Ed. II/V
6 x 7 1/2" image / 13 x 15 1/2" paper
William Nichols
