About this artwork
In early paintings such as this one, Jim Nutt referenced popular culture, particularly painted store windows and pinball machines, through his choice of medium and support: acrylic paint on Plexiglas. In addition, many elements relate to the comic-strip style of hard, crisp forms standing out boldly against simple backgrounds. In Miss E. Knows, Nutt also used a sequential format, incorporating small framed images in the upper-left corner of the painting. The work’s central subject is a grotesquely imagined, highly sexualized female figure—the artist’s satire of ideal beauty.
Nutt is a principal member of the Hairy Who, an irreverent group of artists who began exhibiting together in Chicago during the late 1960s. Their Surrealist-inspired work aimed at subverting artistic conventions and standards of taste, and they became known as part of the Chicago Imagist movement.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 289
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Jim Nutt
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Title
- Miss E. Knows
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1967
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Medium
- Acrylic on Plexiglas with aluminum and rubber; in artist's painted frame
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Dimensions
- 192.1 × 131.1 cm (75 5/8 × 51 5/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund
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Reference Number
- 1970.1014
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Copyright
- © Jim Nutt
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