Nicolas Carone Art
American, 1917-2010
Nicholas Carone is best known for his association with the New York School of Abstract Expressionists who came to prominence in the 1950s. He was born to Italian immigrants in Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1917, the eldest of seven children. He was raised in Hoboken, New Jersey and began attending art school on the nights and weekends at age eleven at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School in Manhattan. After high school, he studied at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design and with Hans Hofmann before serving in World War II. In 1947 he won the prestigious Prix de Rome and spent three years in Italy on the G.I. Bill starting in 1948. In 1949, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. In Rome, living on Via Margutta, he met Alberto Burri, Conrad Marc-Relli and the surrealist Matta, all of whom he would form important, lifelong friendships with. In 1951 he returned to New York City, exhibiting his paintings in the now famed “Ninth Street Show”. He became the founding director of Eleanor Ward’s seminal Stable Gallery and had several important one-man exhibitions of his paintings there, beginning in 1954. As the gallery curator, he gave shows to friends and painters he admired such as Guston, de Kooning, Pollock, and Motherwell.
In the early 1950s, he moved to the Springs at the far end of Long Island. With the help of close friend Jackson Pollock, he found a house near the other artists. He maintained a studio and apartment in Manhattan and exhibited at the Stable and then at Staempfli gallery, throughout the next decade. In the 1960s he was a founding faculty member of the New York Studio School, where he taught for over 20 years, also teaching at Columbia and Cornell. Continually returning to Italy Carone bought a farmhouse in Umbria in the 1970s and during the 1980s he founded an art school The International School in the area.
Besides being known as a New York Abstract Expressionist using the freewheeling gesture of action paintings and loose, painterly style, his work is imbued with a sensibility honed by studying Italian antiquities and the Renaissance masters. Beginning in the early 1960s Carone reintroduced figuration into his work, mining the human form as a source of inspiration. The majority of his body of work blurs the lines between figuration and abstraction conjuring a sense of mysticism and symbolism evocative from a friend and fellow Hamptons resident John Graham.
In the early 2000s the artist began making stark, black and white abstractions that again obscure the boundary between figuration and abstraction. Wrought in thin skeins of loosely flowing white paint, these late works have an immediacy and sense of mastery culminating in over 50 years of painting.(Biography provided by McClain Gallery)
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Artist: Nicolas Carone
Untitled (W-1351-S)
By Nicolas Carone
Located in New York, NY
Nicolas Carone
Untitled (W-1351-S), 1965
Oil and pencil on board
26 x 40 inches
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1960s Abstract Nicolas Carone Art
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Pencil, Board, Oil
Young Man
By Nicolas Carone
Located in New York, NY
Oil on panel
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1980s Abstract Nicolas Carone Art
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Panel, Oil
Untitled (P-2619-S)
By Nicolas Carone
Located in New York, NY
arone was a longtime friend and collaborator of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock beginning in the early 1950s when he settled in East Hampton. Throughout the 1950s he was the di...
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Untitled (W-1383-S)
By Nicolas Carone
Located in New York, NY
Figurative abstract oil painting by Nicolas Carone. Shades of yellow, orange, green, red, neutrals.
Carone was a longtime friend and collaborator of Willem de Kooning and Jackson ...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Nicolas Carone Art
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Oil
Untitled (W-2565-S)
By Nicolas Carone
Located in New York, NY
Abstract painting from the late 1950s by Nicolas Carone. It is the painting on the right in the installation photograph.
Carone was a longtime friend and collaborator of Willem ...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Nicolas Carone Art
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Untitled (W-1357-S)
By Nicolas Carone
Located in New York, NY
Carone painted this figurative abstract painting in the mid-1960s. It is on the right in the installation shot image from our gallery.
Carone was a longtime friend and collaborato...
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1960s Abstract Nicolas Carone Art
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Oil, Pencil
Untitled (W-1816-S)
By Nicolas Carone
Located in New York, NY
Abstract painting by Nicolas Carone. The second image shows the painting (on the left) installed in the gallery.
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20th Century Abstract Nicolas Carone Art
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Oil, Pencil
High Wire
By Nicolas Carone
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on tarpaulin
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21st Century and Contemporary Nicolas Carone Art
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Acrylic
High Spirit
By Nicolas Carone
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on tarpaulin
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21st Century and Contemporary Nicolas Carone Art
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Acrylic
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