Contemporary + Modern: Art & Design
Fri, Feb 24, 2023 01:00AM EST
Lot 85
NICK VACCARO "Solitude" (Oil ca. 1962)
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Nick Vaccaro
(Kansas, 1931-2002)
Solitude, circa 1962
Oil on canvas
70" x 61 3/4"
Signed to the bottom right corner, 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.
Exhibition history: 7th Annual Exhibition of Southwest American Art, 1965, Oklahoma Art Center (Oklahoma City). Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts (exhibition and date unknown).
Several drips on the surface of the paint layer. Mildew present on the reverse of the canvas.
(Kansas, 1931-2002)
Solitude, circa 1962
Oil on canvas
70" x 61 3/4"
Signed to the bottom right corner, 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.
Exhibition history: 7th Annual Exhibition of Southwest American Art, 1965, Oklahoma Art Center (Oklahoma City). Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts (exhibition and date unknown).