NICOLAS CARONE

Born: June 4, 1917 in New York
Died: July 15, 2010 Hudson, NY

Education

1928 – 1931Leonardo da Vinci School of Art
1937 – 1938Art Students League, New York
1938 – 1941WPA, Worcester War Memorial Mural, Assistant to Leon Kroll
1939 – 1942The National Academy of Design, New York
1944 – 1946Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, New York
1947 – 1951American Academy, Rome

Public Collections
Morgan Library and Museum
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 BeachRose 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

1949Cortile Galleria, Rome
1951Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
1952Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
1954Stable Gallery, New York, also 1956
1958Stadler Gallery, Paris
Staempfli Gallery, New York, also, 1959, 1962
1978Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, also 1993
2003Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown
2005Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, also 2007, 2009
2008Washburn Gallery, New York, also 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010Watson MacRae Gallery, Sanibel Island
2013Pollock Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton
2015John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York
20162016 Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, 2017, 2018, 2019, also 2023-24
20172017 New York Studio School Centennial Exhibition
2018Boca Raton Museum of Art

Major Group Exhibitions

1948Modern Museum, Rome
Rome Quadriennale
1951Ninth Street Show, New York
1953-
1958
Stable Gallery Annuals
1957Whitney Museum of American Art, New York , “Annual”
1958Brussels Universal and international Exhibition, Brussels World Fair
Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London; World House, New York; XXVIIIth Venice Biennale, “American Artists Paint the City”
1959Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., “Fulbright Painters”
1961Walker 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”
1962The 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 Hofmann and His Students”
1964Internationale Der Zeichnung, Zurich
1968Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Seventy Years of American Art”
1969Getai Group, Japan
Institute of International Education, New York, “Artists Abroad”
1970Brandeis University Museum, Waltham
1973University of Austin“Ciba-Geigy Collection Exhibition”
1990Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton “East Hampton Avant-Garde, A Salute to the Signa Gallery”
1994The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “American Choice, Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection”
1999Corcoran 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
2006Chiesa-Museo di San Francesco, Corciano, Italy “Artisti ‘stranieri’ in Umbria”
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Painting and Sculpture, New York
2007Oklahoma 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

1941Rome Prize
1949Fulbright Fellowship (Rome)
1955William N. Copley Award
1956National Council of the Arts
1964Longview Foundation
1966National Council on the Arts Grant
1970Creative Arts Public Service Program
1971New York State Council on the Arts Grant
2005Andrew Carnegie Prize, National Academy Museum
2007Inglis Griswold Nelson Prize for Painting, National Academy Museum
2009Pollock 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