Don Nice Foundation

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Nice was renowned for his monumental works  that seamlessly blended realism and abstraction and explored the core forces of nature.  His art vividly portrays the beauty, vibrancy and diversity of natural environments, as well as the complex relationship between humanity and the natural world. Nice embraced in an aesthetic context the idea that nature is the force of life, and we are all a part of it. Nice’s work gained international recognition and has been exhibited in significant gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the US, England, France, Holland, Germany and Australia.  Notably, his works are included in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.  To learn more, please visit www.DonNice.com #donnice #donnicefoundation #art #artist #environment #savetheplanet #artistfoundation

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Don Nice “American Totem:Storm King” 1997 oil on canvas 62” x 44” “In 1996 Don gave a talk at the Century Club about his work. The presentation was a fine overview of his art from the 1950s to the present. From someone who at a young age was truly a cowboy in the west, with a rough-and-tumble attitude toward nature it was there to be used, not nur-tured-he has become someone who has taken on a good deal of the Native American approach toward the earth. He has reached out to it with reverence through direct symbolization with the objects themselves presented in a celebratory way-_something akin to the strivings of the great American poets Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams to capture in their art, as Stevens put it, "not ideas about the thing but the thing itself." Like these two modernists, Don is trying not to build monuments against the world but to become more at one with it. What he is doing has a spiritual quality about it that can only be likened to religion.” Townsend Ludington, Chapel Hill, North Carolina August 1997 #art #artist #totem #donnice #popart #abstractart #winstonartgroup

Prints are available to order for the holidays

print trout don nice art artist — Don Nice Editions The lithograph on aluminum print is an edition of 150 and was published by Black River Press, Sparta, Wisconsin.

Throw Back Thursday. Show Featuring Don Nice's Animal Crackers.

Wild Kingdom: 100 Years Of Animal Art Nothing beats the theme of animals in art and the latest exhibition at the Nassau County Museum of Art is roaring with members of the animal kingdom. Wild Kingdom: 100 Years of Animal Art assembles…

Can you help identify these people? Don Nice is in the foreground. Picture could have been taken at Dons exhibition at the Feigen Herbert Gallery in 1963, or the Allan Stone Gallery exhibitions in 1969 or 1971?

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Festival Predella b. 1932, Visalia, CA A contemporary American realist, Don Nice integrates expressionist and abstract expressionist techniques with a realist focus and energy derived from Pop Art. He combines his interest in observation with an artist’s compulsion for artistic vision, embracing popular culture and...

Many people have asked where they can purchase Don's book, Don Nice: The Nature of Art. I have put it on our "Don Nice Editions" website for those that are interested.

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Don Nice: The Nature of Art by John Driscoll — Don Nice Editions The most comprehensive consideration yet of the remarkable artist’s life and career. With more than 100 color plates, many paintings never before published. John Driscoll’s text, mainly on personal interviews and conversations with the artist, illuminates Nice’s technical and stylistic develop...

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Jennifer Bartlett, Titan of the New York Scene Who Forged a New Path for Painting, Dies at 81 She often subjected her paintings to mathematical systems, proving influential to many.

Last day of our pop up exhibition of Don Nice-Gaia. Hope you can make it over to 3140 Route 22 in Dover Plains. If not, we hope to see you next year for another exciting immersive installation! Stay cool and btw, we have air conditioning!!

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Program - UPSTATE ART WEEKEND — UPSTATE ART WEEKEND This year, UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, July 22-24, 2022, has over 100 exhibitions and events on view, plus more than 50 artists will open their studios.

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Very excited about our installation of Don Nice - Gaia. An immersive installation of his earth spinners. We will be here until 7 tonight and all weekend.. #upstateartweekend #art #gaia #donnice #upstateny #joinusupstate #upaw22

Don Nice - XIII Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid For Sale on 1stDibs - XIII Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid, Lithograph by Don Nice. Offered by Leslie Nice Fine Art LLC.

Save the Date!

Upstate Art Weekend Presents Don Nice: GAIA Save The Date - July 22-24 Don Nice: GAIA Don Nice ES 9710, 2010 Watercolor 46" diameter Don Nice: GAIA, is presented at the Don Nice archive and project space, recently established in Dover Plains, N

Don Nice - GAIA, is presented at the Don Nice archive and project space, recently established in Dover Plains, NY, by the artist's daughter Leslie Nice, agent for the artist’s estate. The space, which does not maintain regular public hours, will be free and open to the public for the duration of the Upstate Art Weekend, Fri 10-7, Sat 10-7, Sun 10-7. The 6,000 square foot space offers exhibition and viewing areas and an outside space, allowing ample room for any covid protocols.

Don Nice maintained a studio in Garrison, overlooking the Hudson River, for over 50 years, and was an integral part of the fabric of the arts community in the region as well as an internationally recognized practitioner of environmentally focused art. Don Nice- GAIA examines Nice’s last series of “Earth Spinners”, a body of work situated within his lifelong engagement with environmental concerns, yet exploring a new mode of representation of our relationship to the earth as our host. Meant to be viewed as part of an immersive environment, this exciting installation brings his artistic vision full circle- directly referencing the central premise of scientist and writer James Lovelock, The Gaia Hypothesis, “ a model of the Earth in which its living and non living parts…can be thought of as a single organism.” Lovelock’s work served as an inspiration throughout Nice’s career. The works in Don Nice- GAIA also exuberantly celebrate the abstract brushwork which defined Nice’s early works from the 50’s and 60’s, before his rise to prominence in the late 1960’s as a “New Perceptual Realist.”

Nice’s work is included in over 70 museums- from the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art and the Albany Institute of History and Art here in the Hudson River Valley, to the Metropolitan Museum , the Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, Crystal Bridges, The Art Gallery of Ontario, and the National Museum of Art, Australia.

To learn more about the artist Don Nice, please visit www.donnice.com

The Estate of Don Nice is excited to have been selected to participate in Update Art Weekend

Stay tuned for more details

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