Jim Nutt

by Milwaukee Art Museum, Russell Bowman (Editor), Margaret Andera (Editor)

This book examines the artistic work of Chicago native Jim Nutt, an important contemporary American artist. The publication provides an occasion to assess Nutt's works and the connections among them and his group, the Hairy Who.

Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

172 pages, Paperback

First published February 21, 2005

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Back in the 70's a group of Art Institute of Chicago students formed a group called the Harry Who. This group of artists became known by the art world as the Chicago Imagists.

Jim Nutt was one of those artists. Inspired by cartoons and other media, Nutt's works incorporate text and raw figurative images. I love this book of paintings. Nutt produced these recently (relatively), and are much different from his earlier works. They're dark, rich portraits each titled with a single word.

My favorite is Lamp. Check it out.