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HOBART NICHOLS (American 1869-1962) A PAINTING, "January Thaw," 20TH CENTURY,
oil on canvas, signed L/R, "Hobart Nichols," with a label on reverse from Grand Central Art Gallery, New York; 25" x 30", framed 32 1/2" x 37".

  • Provenance: Collection of Sylvia and Saverio Giammalva, Houston, Texas.
  • Notes: Henry Hobart Nichols Jr. was an American landscape painter and illustrator. Nichols was born to Henry Hobart and Indiana Jay Nichols on May 1, 1869, in Washington, DC. He studied under Howard Hemlock and Edmund Clarence Messer[3] at the Art Students League of Washington and later, completed in 1905, studies with Caludio Castelucho at the Académie Julian in Paris. Nichols' began his career as an illustrator for the US Geological Survey where he remained for 15 years building his fine art career in his spare time. Ultimately he became known for his landscapes rendered in oil or watercolor. His grandniece, Barbara Sussman's description of her great uncle's work repeats the themes of so many of his viewers through his long career "Hobart's paintings are solid and well executed, and he seldom strayed from the winter landscapes in which he found so much interest in exploring the nuances of light on snow." Hobart Nichols was known as much for his leadership in the art community as he was for his painting. He was president of the National Academy of Art for ten years and exhibited there, the Salmagundi Club and Grand Central Galleries many times. Today, Nichols' work is among the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution the National Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection. Nearly blind, Nichols died in Bronxville on August 13, 1962, at the age of 93 – 12 years after the death of his younger brother Spencer, and eight years after the death of his wife.
  • Condition: There are a few very small specks of paint that have flecked off. There is also minor craquelure. Otherwise no visible signs of damage or alteration.

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