After Thoughts on Some Really Red Hots

Gladys Nilsson is one of the original Chicago Imagist artists, an iconoclastic group of artists who established themselves in the late 1960s in a series of exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center. Known for her watercolors, often featuring chaotic compositions, Nilsson depicts humorous narratives with exaggerated characters in whimsical situations, both domestic and social. With their elongated and rubbery limbs, the figures in this work are typical of Nilsson’s distinctive style.

Nilsson attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1958 to 1962 and became a youth instructor at the Hyde Park Art Center, where she exhibited in several group shows, including the famous Hairy Who? exhibition in 1966.