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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.
(Biography provided by Leslie Nice Fine Art LLC)
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Artist: Don Nice
Bear with Predella
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 -...
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1970s Contemporary Don Nice Art

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Lithograph, Offset, Other Medium

Mozart Predella, Large Pop Art Silkscreen by Don Nice 1978
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)
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1970s Pop Art Don Nice Art

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Screen

Censorship
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...
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1970s American Modern Don Nice Art

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Lithograph

Ernest Sound
By Don Nice
Located in Garrison, NY
Landscape limited edition of 30 prints of Ernest Sound by Don Nice, printed under the supervision of Master Printer, Jack Lemon of Landfall Press. Printed ...
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1980s Land Don Nice Art

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Lithograph

Fredricks Straits
By Don Nice
Located in Garrison, NY
Landscape limited edition of 30 prints of Fredericks Straits by Don Nice, printed under the supervision of Master Printer, Jack Lemon of Landfall Press. Pr...
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1980s Land Don Nice Art

Materials

Lithograph

XIII Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid
By Don Nice
Located in Garrison, NY
This is an original 1980 Winter Olympic silkscreen poster created by the American Pop Realist painter Don Nice. The silkscreen poster was printed by Pace Editions in 1980 It represents images from the two 30’ x 9’ foot murals commissioned by the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1980 Winter Olympics. These murals are displayed at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid...
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1980s Pop Art Don Nice Art

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