Description
In the Afternoon, 2007
Artist: Gladys Nilsson (b. 1940)
Watercolor and gouache on paper
13 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches
Signed, titled, and dated on verso
Nilsson is an extremely popular and talented American artist. She is one of the original “Hairy Who or Chicago Imagists” that was formed by students from the Art Institute of Chicago. Her paintings are a surreal mixture of fantasy whimsy and domesticity. She is married to fellow Hairy Who artist, Jim Nutt.