Jim Nutt
American, born 1938
Untitled (Tears)
INV-2096
Jim Nutt
American, born 19381964/65
Untitled (Tears)
Jim Nutt American, born 1938 →ball-point penpaper
Date
1964/65
Medium
Blue ballpoint pen and acrylic on off-white wove paper, tipped to green wove paper, tipped onto textured aluminum foil, wrapped around off-white card
Dimensions
Primary support: 20.1 × 15.7 cm (7 15/16 × 6 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 21.3 × 16.8 cm (8 7/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Tertiary support: 42.8 × 31.2 cm (16 7/8 × 12 5/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of the Raymond K. Yoshida Living Trust and Kohler Foundation, Inc.
During his time at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Nutt and his wife, Gladys Nilsson, developed close friendships with instructors Ray Yoshida and Whitney Halstead. The latter hired Nutt to work as the projection assistant for his art history classes, an experience that exposed him to a wide range of visual influences. This drawing is an early example of Nutt’s work and foreshadows the radical figural invention for which he is best known.
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