Big School Picture; Little Paper Mural
<p>Attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in the early 1960s, Gladys Nilsson studied with and befriended the art history professor Whitney Halstead. Among the most celebrated watercolorists working today, Nilsson builds her compositions by applying thin layers of transparent wash, resulting in great depth and brilliant colors. This watercolor depicting crowds of students across multiple spaces was originally commissioned by SAIC to be used as an advertising poster. The work is filled with her typically dense groupings of figures, organized lyrically and playfully within the composition.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1992
- Dimensions
- 65.7 × 84 cm (25 7/8 × 33 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Gladys Nilsson
Artist
Painting
Gladys Nilsson is an American painter and printmaker born in 1940.
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2013 · Collage of cut and commercially printed papers, watercolor, colored pencils, brush and black ink, crayons, and pastel, on white wove paper
The Buyers, from Sum Daze
1993 · Etching on white wove paper
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1993 · Etching, soft ground etching, and roulette on tan Japanese paper, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)
Laundry, from Sum Daze
1993 · Etching and soft ground etching on white wove paper
". . . So...then she sez. . . ."
1993 · Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper
The Juggler, from Sum Daze
1993 · Etching, soft ground etching, and aquatint on cream wove paper
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- Gladys Nilsson
- Year
- 1992
- Dimensions
- 65.7 × 84 cm (25 7/8 × 33 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1992-015008
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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