HYDE PARK — All four books of the Hairy Who art movement centered around the Hyde Park Art Center are now back in print for the first time in 46 years.
Matthew Marks Gallery in New York City has collected the four comic books from the groups’ landmark exhibitions from 1966-69 in the book “The Collected Hairy Who Publications 1966–1969.”
“These comic books, as the artists called them, are among the first artist’s books executed in full color, and they are exemplary models of artistic collaboration,” according to the publisher. “The pages teem with unforgettable characters (including Juan Dollar, Poodle Woman, and Lotte Da) rendered in energetic lines and intense colors.”
The group that included Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum got its start during several gallery shows at the Hyde Park Art Center and has become the subject of renewed interest in the last two years.
A documentary about the group, “Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists,” was released late last year.
The book collects all four books and 106 images from those early exhibitions with an introductory essay by Dan Nadel.
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