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Graham Nickson
(British, born
1946
)
32
.
Georgica Bathers: Yellow and Black
1993
Acrylic on canvas
22
½
x
40
½
inches (
57.1
x
102.9
cm.)
Image courtesy of the artist
Graham Nickson was born in England and since
1976
has resided in New York City.
He has worked, traveled and exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad,
and is the recipient of the Prix de Rome (
1972
-
74
), The Harkness Fellowship at Yale
University (
1976
–
78
), the Guggenheim Fellowship (
1989
), and the Ingram Merrill
Fellowship (
1993
). Recent Solo exhibitions include
Graham Nickson: Private Myths
at
the Naples Museum of Art, FL (
2007
),
Graham Nickson: Works from Private Collections
at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL (
2006
),
Paintings
(
2005
) and
Watercolors
(
2006
)
at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, NY, and
Meeting and Passing
at the Lillehammer Art
Museum in Norway (
2007
). His work is in the permanent collections of many in-
stitutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum
of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery, DC; The Harvard Art Museums,
Mass.; The Albright Knox Gallery, New York; The Neuberger Museum of Art, NY;
The Frye Art Museum, Seattle; The Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway; and The
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Fla. He has been a faculty member and Dean of the New
York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture since
1988
and is the origi-
nator of the internationally renowned “Drawing Marathon.”