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Lot 39

NICK VACCARO "Squares and Bars" (1969 Acrylic)

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Nick Vaccaro
(Kansas, 1931-2002)
Squares and Bars, 1969
Acrylic on canvas
55 1/4" x 55 1/4"

Signed, dated, 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.

Condition

There is mildew across the surface and to the reverse of the canvas from non-archival storage.