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Gerald Nichols

 
Gerald Nichols

American 20th-21st century American painter, mixed-media and sculptor
(1938 – )

From artist's website: Nichols "received his MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965. A recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1970, he was awarded grants from the Carnegie Mellon Foundation and the Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York. Included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among others, Nichols has presented his installations, public projects, paintings and constructions in group and solo exhibitions across the country. His last solo exhibition, entitled "Birds, Landscapes, Houses, and Insects," was presented at York College of Art, Jamaica, New York, in 1999. Since 1967 he has taught painting and drawing at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia), has recently served as Chair of Fine Arts, and has been a lead studio faculty in Painting in the University's Summer MFA program since its inception in 1995."

1 objects

Untitled

n.d.
oil stick on museum board framed in plexibox
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.244