Contemporary + Modern: Art & Design
Fri, Feb 24, 2023 01:00AM EST
Lot 98
NICK VACCARO "Edge of Summer" (Oil ca. 1960s)
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$1,800
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Nick Vaccaro
(Kansas, 1931-2002)
Edge of Summer, circa 1960s
Oil on canvas
42" x 26"
An Abstract Expressionist composition in the manner of Willem de Kooning. Signed to the bottom right, signed and titled to the reverse. Presented in the original thin wooden slat frame.
Nick Vaccaro was a professor and chairman of the drawing and painting department at the University of Kansas. As an artist, Vaccaro was the recipient of purchase awards from the San Francisco Museum of Art (1958), the Dallas Museum of Fine Art (1961), and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and his work has additionally been exhibited in the Nelson Gallery of Art, Oklahoma Arts Center, Wichita Art Museum, and Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts.
There are scattered areas of minor cracking to the paint layer. Mildew to the reverse.
(Kansas, 1931-2002)
Edge of Summer, circa 1960s
Oil on canvas
42" x 26"
An Abstract Expressionist composition in the manner of Willem de Kooning. Signed to the bottom right, signed and titled to the reverse. Presented in the original thin wooden slat frame.
Nick Vaccaro was a professor and chairman of the drawing and painting department at the University of Kansas. As an artist, Vaccaro was the recipient of purchase awards from the San Francisco Museum of Art (1958), the Dallas Museum of Fine Art (1961), and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and his work has additionally been exhibited in the Nelson Gallery of Art, Oklahoma Arts Center, Wichita Art Museum, and Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts.