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Nathaniel Dirk Art

American, 1895-1961

Nathaniel Dirk was born in Brooklyn in 1895. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League, in New York, with Max Weber, Kenneth Hayes Miller and Boardman Robinson, and in Paris with Fernand Leger. He taught at the Art Students League in the summer of 1939 and from 1947–51. He also gave lectures on Color for the Artist at the League from 1957 through 1960. Dirk exhibited widely, including thirteen one-man exhibitions in New York City between 1927–57 and numerous shows throughout the USA. He was a member of the Audubon Artists, the Rockport Art Association and the Rockport Art Group. He was President of the Cape Ann Society of Modern Art, and Director of Artists Equity, the Contemporary Art Center and the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association, all in New York City.

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original lithograph
By Nathaniel Dirk
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1952 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1952 Spr...
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1950s Nathaniel Dirk Art

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Lithograph

'Meeting Hall, Rockport' — Mid-Century Modernist Watercolor
By Nathaniel Dirk
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A fine spontaneous rendering in watercolor, with fresh colors, on watercolor paper. Signed lower right, with the artist's notation verso H 12, indicating his 12rd work of 1950. A mid...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nathaniel Dirk Art

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Watercolor

'Gloucester' — Mid-Century Modernist Watercolor
By Nathaniel Dirk
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Nathaniel Dirk, Untitled (Gloucester), watercolor, with fresh colors, on watercolor paper; in fine, original condition, with the artist's tack holes (barely visible) at the sheet edg...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nathaniel Dirk Art

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Watercolor

'Cape Ann Harbor View' — Mid-Century Modernist Watercolor
By Nathaniel Dirk
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Nathaniel Dirk, 'Cape Ann Harbor View', vintage watercolor on watercolor paper, 1948. A fine, spontaneous rendering, with fresh, undiminished colors, in very good condition; the arti...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Nathaniel Dirk Art

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Watercolor

"Swirling Seas, " Nathaniel Dirk, watercolor, seascape, modernism, ca 1940s
By Nathaniel Dirk
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1895, Nathaniel Dirk studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League in New York under Max Weber, Boardman Robinson and Kenneth Hayes Mi...
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1940s Modern Nathaniel Dirk Art

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Watercolor

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