Don Nice
Donald Harry Nice | |
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| File:Don Nice in his studio at 463 Broome Street in NYC in 1964 with his painting Strawberry.jpg Nice in his NYC studio in 1964 with his painting Strawberry | |
| Born | 1932 Visalia, California |
| Died | 2019 (aged 86–87) Cortlandt, New York |
| Known for | Painter, printmaker |
| Movement | Pop art |
| Website | donnice |
Don Nice (1932–2019) was an American painter, printmaker, and educator known for his pop realism.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Nice was born in Visalia, California in 1932.[1] He attended the University of Southern California and the Yale School of Art.[2] Nice served in the United States Army from 1955 through 1957. After leaving the army he spent several year in Europe. In 1959 he married Sandra Kay Smith.[3]
Nice taught at the Minneapolis School of Art,[3] the School of Visual Arts, and went on to be the artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College.[2]
Nice's early paintings were in the Abstract Expressionist style. He abandoned Abstract Expressionism for Pop art.[4] His work was included in the 1968 Vassar College Art Gallery exhibition Realism Now.[5] His work was included in the Rubber Stamp Portfolio published in the late 1970s.[6] By the 1980s Nice was incorporating landscapes of the Hudson River Valley in his work.[3]
Nice died in 2019 in Cortlandt, New York.[1]
Work
[edit | edit source]Nice's work in many collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[7] the Museum of Modern Art,[8] the National Gallery of Art,[9] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] the Whitney Museum of American Art.[10]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- imaged of Nice's work at Pace Prints
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