Don Nice Art
American, 1932-2019
Don Nice is a classic figure in American art of the past half-century. He burst upon the scene in the early 1960’s when the Whitney Museum of American Art acquired his
“American Series #5” and he was recognized as one of the innovative group of “new
perceptual realists” who wanted to put content back into painting. Nice integrates a
gestured technique gleaned from earlier expressionist and Abstract Expressionist painters with a realist focus and energy derived from Pop Art. Combining a naturalist’s interest in observation with an artist’s compulsion for artistic vision, Nice embraces aspects of popular culture and certain critical issues of our time. He paints classic American products like sneakers, candy wrappers and soda bottles with the same intensity he lavishes on quintessential site-specific landscapes from the Hudson River Valley to the Sierra Nevada Mountains. In doing so he has created a distinctive vision of civilization’s detritus in league with cultural concerns for the environment.
Born in California, he studied art in Europe and earned an MFA at Yale, and then established himself in New York City before acquiring a house and studio overlooking the Hudson River in bucolic Garrison. There he has reveled in the painterly gesture and provocative realism for which he is known. He has conjured and created a singular pursuit of new formal ideas and formats in which he visualizes the complicated and often organic interplay between process and product, between that which is common and that which is classic.
Over the past 50 years Nice’s work has entered many major public collections world wide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, the
Museum of Modern Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the Walker Art Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada and the National Museum of Art in Australia. Nice has had over 60 solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad. And has been included in more than 140 group exhibitions in prominent galleries and museums globally. Nice’s work has been a subject of 4 major publications, including a monograph of the Artist’s life and work, published by Pomegranate Books. In 2018 he was the recipient of The Lee Krasner Award in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement for his distinguished career.
Though out Nice’s carrier he had a deeply held concern for the environment and collaborated with environmental advocate organizations such as Nation Resource Defense Council, Open Space Institute and the Hudson Highland land Trust to name a few.to
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Artist: Don Nice
New York, New York, vintage 1980s poster (hand signed and inscribed by Don Nice)
By Don Nice
Located in New York, NY
Don Nice
New York, New York (hand signed and inscribed by Don Nice), 1984
Rare offset lithograph poster (signed and inscribed from Don Nice to Dick Polich)
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Mozart Predella, Large Pop Art Screenprint by Don Nice
By Don Nice
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Nice, American (1932 - )
Title: Mozart Predella
Year: 1978
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 7/19
Size: 33 x 72 in. (83.82 x 182.88 cm)
Category
1970s Pop Art Don Nice Art
Materials
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Bear with Predella, Rubber Stamp Print on Arches Satine with Envelope Ed of 1000
By Don Nice
Located in New York, NY
Bear with Predella (from Rubber Stamp Portfolio), 1976
Rubber Stamp Print on Arches Satine with Envelope
8 × 8 inches
Edition of 1000
Unframed -...
Category
1970s Contemporary Don Nice Art
Materials
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Bear with Predella, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, Don Nice
By Don Nice
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Printer’s ink from rubber stamp on vélin d’Arches Satine paper. Paper Size: 8 x 8 inches. Inscription: Unsigned, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, 1977. Publi...
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1970s Pop Art Don Nice Art
Materials
Printer's Ink
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Censorship, Framed Pop Art Lithograph by Don Nice
By Don Nice
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Don Nice, American (1932 - )
Title: Censorship
Year: 1978
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 144
Size: 12 in. x 38 in. (30.48 cm x 96.52 cm)
Frame Si...
Category
1970s American Modern Don Nice Art
Materials
Lithograph
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