About this artwork
One of the instigators of the Hairy Who, Jim Nutt has been based in Chicago since he moved here to study at SAIC in 1960, aside from a brief interlude spent teaching in California. During his early years, he worked as a preparator for Allan Frumkin Gallery, where he had access to prints by James Ensor, Paul Klee, and Edvard Munch, all of which had a powerful effect on his vision. This jocular self-portrait was made during an etching class with Vera Berdich, and it betrays Nutt’s knowledge of the unusual textural methods used by Ensor and Klee.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Jim Nutt
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Title
- Self-Portrait
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1960–1961
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Medium
- Etching and aquatint in black on cream wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image/plate: 18.7 × 20 cm (7 3/8 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 32 cm (10 1/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Bequest of Vera Berdich
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Reference Number
- 2010.809
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Copyright
- © Jim Nutt
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