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 Hofmann School of Fine Arts, New York |
| 1947 – 1951 | American 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
| 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 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 |
| 2015 | John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York |
| 2016 | 2016 Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, 2017, 2018, 2019, also 2023-24 |
| 2017 | 2017 New York Studio School Centennial Exhibition |
| 2018 | Boca Raton Museum of Art |
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 Hofmann 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 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” 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 | Rome Prize |
| 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 | Pollock 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