Art Green, Uncanny Painter of Chicago’s Hairy Who, Dies at 83

Art Green, Uncanny Painter of Chicago’s Hairy Who, Dies at 83

Arthur “Art” Green, an original member of the art group Hairy Who?, died at the age of 83 on Monday, April 14. Green, who burst into the Chicago art scene in the mid-to-late 1960s, leaves behind not only a wealth of artwork capturing his ability to complicate the mundane, but also an almost 40-year secondary education career as a fine arts professor — primarily at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario. The news of his death was confirmed by Gar…

Art Green, Founding Figure of Chicago’s Riotous Harry Who?, Has Died at 83

Arthur “Art” Green, a key Imagist painter and original member of the Hairy Who?, Chicago’s electrifying answer to Pop Art, died at the age of 83 on April 14. The news was announced by Garth Greenan Gallery in New York, which represented him. Green broke into the art world consciousness in the mid-1960s in a riot of color, wit, and outrage alongside five fellow recent graduates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited toget…