Audio Tour: Jim Nutt: Coming Into Character
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Since 1990, Jim Nutt has focused exclusively on female heads in spare-line drawings and rich, detailed paintings. This exhibition is a retrospective of Nutt's work that emphasizes the development of these important paintings through their precedents in his own work. Acknowledging the groundswell in interest in this unique American artist's work, this will be the first major presentation of Nutt in over a decade. Nutt's history as an important artist dates to the mid-1960s where in Chicago he was a chief instigator of the irreverent “Hairy Who” group, now better known as the Chicago Imagists.