artist ROBERT GUINAN painter
Born in Watertown, New York in 1934, Guinan started painting at an early age. His discovery of Toulouse-Lautrec led to a lifelong fascination with street scenes and night life, with musicians, prostitutes and bar patrons. He served in the Air Force between 1953 and 1957, stationed much of the time in Libya and Turkey, where he began sketching the locals. In 1959 he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. He fell in love with the city and made it not only his home, but the subject of his work. In 1968, along with Ed Paschke and a handful of other local artists, he showcased his paintings in the “Nonplussed Some” exhibition, the third of seven events which would comprise the Chicago Imagists movement.
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