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The Chicago Imagists are a group of artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who emerged in the late 1960's in a series of exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center. Their representational work was often described as shocking, surreal, and completely uninvolved with the mainstream trends in the New York art world. The anti-establishment course of their work often featured sex, politics, and violence. Laced with Surrealist and Dada influences, their sharp, bright colors heightened the impact of the fantastical, fetishized, and ironic overtones found within their work. United by common themes, the Chicago Imagists shared a graphic treatment to their images, and an interest in comic books, posters, humor, and popular advertisements. While the Imagists were not a formal group, they were described as a collection of artists involved in exhibitions organized by curator Don Baum throughout the mid-1960s and early 1970s. The Chicago Imagists included: Roger Brown, Eleanor Dube, James Falconer, Art Green, Phil Hanson, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, and Karl Wirsum.
Roger Brown (1941-1997)
Malibu
Details
Roger Brown (1941-1997)
Malibu
titled 'MALIBU' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
48 x 72 in. (121.9 x 182.8 cm.)
Painted in 1984.
Malibu
titled 'MALIBU' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
48 x 72 in. (121.9 x 182.8 cm.)
Painted in 1984.
Provenance
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984
Exhibited
Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Sources of Light: Contemporary American Luminism, April-May 1985, pp. 73 and 81 (illustrated in color).
Sale Room Notice
Please note that this painting is titled 'MALIBU' on the overlap.