Contemporary + Modern: Art & Design
Fri, Feb 24, 2023 01:00AM EST
Lot 17
NICK VACCARO "The Window" (1965 Oil)
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$4,000
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Nick Vaccaro
(Kansas, 1931-2002)
The Window, 1965
Oil on canvas
84 1/2" x 69 1/2"
A large-scale composition that plays on the viewer's sense of proportion and space in a manner similar to works by Richard Serra. Signed, titled, and dated to the reverse. Presented in the original thin wooden slat frame. The reverse bears a submission tag for the 15th Mid-America Annual Exhibition (1965), held at the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (now the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art).
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.
Some faint mildew to the reverse of the canvas.
(Kansas, 1931-2002)
The Window, 1965
Oil on canvas
84 1/2" x 69 1/2"
A large-scale composition that plays on the viewer's sense of proportion and space in a manner similar to works by Richard Serra. Signed, titled, and dated to the reverse. Presented in the original thin wooden slat frame. The reverse bears a submission tag for the 15th Mid-America Annual Exhibition (1965), held at the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (now the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art).
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.