Dale Nichols
Visual Artist
1904 – 1995
Who was Dale Nichols?
Dale Nichols, also published under his full name, Dale William Nichols, was an American visual artist whose works included illustrations, paintings, lithographs, and wood carvings. He is best known for his work as a rural landscape painter. Nichols' work is often classified with that of other regional American landscape artists, including Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton.
Nichols was born on July 13, 1904 in the small town of David City, Nebraska, and began his career as an artist while studying at Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He spent the greater part of the 1920s and 1930s in Chicago, later becoming the Carnegie Professor in Art at the University of Illinois. Nichols would then take a position in 1943 as the Art Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Upon leaving his post at Britannica, Nichols spent the remainder of his life traveling, splitting the majority of his time between Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alaska, and Guatemala. He died in Sedona, Arizona on October 19, 1995, at age 91.
In September 1939, Nichols' was featured in Time Magazine. Said one Time reviewer in that issue, "Subjects he prefers are the prairie landscapes of his youth, usually snowed under. These famed smooth snow effects Artist Nichols gets by laying on his oils in a thin film with watercolor brushes."
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- Born
- Jul 13, 1904
David City - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Died
- Oct 19, 1995
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on July 23, 2013
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