James Craig Nicoll Paintings
Noted marine painter and etcher James Craig Nicoll was born in New York City in 1846. He studied art under Mauritz F.H. de Haas, a well-known marine painter who worked for the Royal Dutch Court and as the official U. S. government artist of Admiral Farragut’s flagship during the Civil War. Nicoll was a prolific artist who worked in the luminist style during the 1860s and 1870s, and most often painted seascapes of the New England and Long Island coasts. From the 1880s on, he utilized a more muted, earthy palette. Nicoll exhibited New England seascapes as early as 1868 and regularly showed works that bear titles such as Rhode Island Coast, Near Point Judith, and Thatcher’s Island, Massachusetts. Nicoll also painted in Shrub Oak, Westchester County, New York, where he owned a weekend and summer home. In 1879, Nicoll taught etching to his good friend Kruseman Van Elten, also a noted marine painter.
In 1880, Nicoll was elected an associate of the National Academy, and he became a full Academician in 1885. From 1867 to 1900, Nicoll exhibited annually at the National Academy of Design. He also exhibited at the American Watercolor Society, American Fund Society, New York Etching Club, Artists’ Aid Society, New York Municipal Art Society, and the Century Association. His honors included medals from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1888), New Orleans Exposition (1885), American Art Association (1888), Atlanta Exposition (1895), and the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo (1901). Nicoll’s paintings are housed in important public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Newark Museum, New Jersey; Mattatuck Museum, Woodbury, Connecticut; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
(Biography provided by Godel & Co. Fine Art)Late 19th Century James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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Early 20th Century Impressionist James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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19th Century Romantic James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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Joseph BrunnerJ. Brunner 1869 Oil on Canvas Austrian Landscape with Lake and Mountain Painting, 1869
1920s Impressionist James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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1910s Impressionist James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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Early 20th Century Impressionist James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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19th Century Naturalistic James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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Early 20th Century Impressionist James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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Venice Landscape Italian Oil on Canvas Painting in Gilt Wood Frame, Belle Epoque, Early 20th Century
Mid-20th Century Impressionist James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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2010s American Realist James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist James Craig Nicoll Paintings
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