NICOLAS CARONE
Born: June 4, 1917 in New York
Died: July 15, 2010 Hudson, NY
Education
1928-1931 Leonardo da Vinci School of Art
1937-1938 Art Students League, New York
1938-1941 WPA, Worcester War Memorial Mural, Assistant to Leon Kroll
1939-1942 The National Academy of Design, New York
1944-1946 Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts, New York
1947-1951 American Academy, Rome
Public Collections
Baltimore Museum of Art
The National Academy of Design, New York
Getai Group, Japan
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Museum
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Syracuse University Art Galleries
Tate Modern, London
Union Carbide Corporation, Danbury
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Weatherspoon Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Solo Exhibitions
1949 Cortile Galleria, Rome
1951 Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
1952 Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
1954 Stable Gallery, New York, also 1956
1958 Stadler Gallery, Paris
1958 Staempfli Gallery, New York, also, 1959,1962
1978 Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, also 1993
2003 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown
2005 Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, also 2007, 2009
2008 Washburn Gallery, New York, also 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010 Watson MacRae Gallery, Sanibel Island
2013 Pollock Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton
2016 Loretta Howard Gallery, New York
Major Group Exhibitions
1948 Modern Museum, Rome
Rome Quadriennale
1951 Ninth Street Show, New York
1953-1958 Stable Gallery Annuals
1957 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York , “Annual”
1958 Brussels Universal and international Exhibition, Brussels World Fair
Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London; World House, New York; XXVIIIth Venice Biennale,
“American Artists Paint the City”
1959 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., “Fulbright Painters”
1961 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis “60 American Painters, 1960”
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York “American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists”
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Annual”
1962 The Art Institute of Chicago, “65th American Exhibition”
Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, “American Abstract Artist”
1963-1964 Museum of Modern Art, New York, “Hans Hoffman and His Students”
1964 Internationale Der Zeichnung, Zurich
1968 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Seventy Years of American Art”
1969 Getai Group, Japan
1969 Institute of International Education, New York, “Artists Abroad”
1970 Brandeis University Museum, Waltham
1973 University of Austin“Ciba-Geigy Collection Exhibition”
1990 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton “East Hampton Avant-Garde, A Salute to the Signa Gallery”
1994 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “American Choice, Muriel Kallis Steinberg
Newman Collection”
1999 Corcoran Gallery of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables
National Academy of Design, New York
National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
Tate Modern, London
2006 Chiesa-Museo di San Francesco, Corciano, Italy “Artisti ‘stranieri’ in Umbria”
2006 American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of
Painting and Sculpture, New York
2007 Oklahoma City Museum of Art “Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of
Modern Art, 1961-1968”
P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York “Orpheus Selection:
In Search of Darkness ”
Awards
1941 Prix de Rome
1949 Fulbright Fellowship (Rome)
1955 William N. Copley Award
1956 National Council of the Arts
1964 Longview Foundation
1966 National Council on the Arts Grant
1970 Creative Arts Public Service Program
1971 New York State Council on the Arts Grant
2005 Andrew Carnegie Prize, National Academy Museum
2007 Inglis Griswold Nelson Prize for Painting, National Academy Museum
2009 Lee Krasner Award for lifetime achievement
Teaching History
Brandeis University, Waltham
Columbia University, New York
The Cooper Union School, New York
Cornell University, Ithaca
International School of Art, Umbria, Italy, Founder and Director
Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore
The National Academy of Design, New York
The New York Studio School, Founding faculty member
Skowhegan Art School, Maine
Yale University, New Haven
Selected Bibliography
Wilkin, Karen, "At the Galleries", The Hudson Review, Vol. LXII, Autumn 2009
Panero, James, “Gallery Chronicle,” The New Criterion, June 2, 2009
Esplund, Lance, “A Virtuoso With Line,” The Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2009
Goodrich, John, “Nicolas Carone: Abstraction/Figuration,” CityArts, May 2009
Warner, Emily, “Nicolas Carone: Paintings from 2008-09,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2009
Marika Herskovic, "American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style is Timely Art is Timeless", New York School Press, 2009
Hirsch, Faye, “Nicolas Carone, Washburn,” Art in America, September 2008
Yau, John, “Nicolas Carone Recent Paintings,” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2008
Tinterow, Gary, Lisa Mintz Messinger, Nan Rosenthal, Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007.
Lebowitz, Cathy “Nicolas Carone at Lohin Geduld Gallery,” Art in America, October 2007
Micchelli, Thomas “Nicolas Carone, Sculpture,” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2007
Ramm, David “Nicolas Carone, Artist,” Current Biography, Volume 67 Number 7, July 2006
Kramer, Hilton. “Nicolas Carone Shows He’s Still Unsurpassed On the Female Nude,” The New York Observer, November 28, 2005
Longhi, Tomassio. Review, The Brooklyn Rail, November, 2005.
Esplund, Lance. “Can’t-Miss Shows You Might Not Catch,” The Sun, November 17, 2005
Mullarkey, Maureen, “Paint It With Black,” The Sun, July 21, 2005
Marika Herskovic, "American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey", New York School Press, 2003
Stein, Linda, ‘Re-examining Abstract Art - Part 1,” The New York Art World, May 2003
Marika Herskovic, "New York School Abstract Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artist", New York School Press, 2000
Potter, Jeffrey, “To a Violent Grave: An Oral Biography of Jackson Pollock,” Pushcart Press, 1985
Monroe, Gerald, “Teaching Drawing: The Personal Approach of Nicolas Carone,” May-June 1981
Lewis, Flora. “Two Paris Shows a la Pollock,” The New York Times, October 3, 1979
Art & Architecture, January 1960
Burrows, Carlyle. “Six are Abstract and all Unalike,” New York Herald Tribune, Sunday November 12, 1959
Ashton, Dore. “Art: ‘The American Style’ in Painting/Exhibition At Staempfli of Works by Carone,” The New York Times
Ashton, Dore. “Art: Large Abstractions/Carone at Stable,” The New York Times, November 5, 1957
Art & Architecture, June 1956
Burrows, Carlyle. “Tradition and Novelty in Art Shows,” New York Herald Tribune, April 22, 1956
Art News, 1953
Preston, Stuart, “New Shows in a Wide Range,” 1953
Jewell, Edward Alden. “Academy and Independents Approach” The New York Times, April 12, 1942
“Model who Paints wins Rome Prize,” The New York Times, Tuesday May 6, 1941