Who are the Chicago Imagists, and why are they in Sydney?

Roger Brown was a pivotal character in the Chicago scene, an artist whose influence has made its way to the Hughes Gallery.
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Little is known of the Chicago Imagists in Australia, a group that gained currency in the late 1960s through to the 1980s, and who are today icons of American art history. Among them was Roger Brown, whose painting Land of Lincoln (1978) was the catalogue cover for the important exhibition, Who Chicago?, which toured to the UK in 1981, banding together and branding the group.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina