Jim Nutt

Jim Nutt  b.1938  Coursing  1966  acrylic and collage on plexiglas with painted wooden artist's frame 37"x 26"

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Nutt was an artist from Chicago that became a major influence on that city's visual arts culture in the late 60's  and through out the 70's. He along with his wife Gladys Nilsson, Suellen Rocca, Art Green, and James Falconer formed what became known as the Hairy Who group.These like minded painters influences were not main stream contemporary art ideas at the time. Formalism, minimalism, abstraction, color field painting, held no interest for them. They, instead, felt a kinship with the outsider world of carny's and self taught artists that they encountered in the mid western cities and environs. The profane, awkward, marginalized world of the every man was where they gleaned their ideas. Highly crafted bizarre narratives became the staple of their world.
He and his associates were the reason I went to grad school at SAIC.