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Spencer Baird Nichols BIOGRAPHY
1875 Washington, District Of Columbia - 1950 Kent, Connecticut. Known for: Landscape, portrait, mural, illustration.
Spencer Baird Nichols' childhood was spent in Washington, D.C. where he attended the Corcoran School of Art and the Washington Art Students' League. At the Corcoran he studied under Howard Helmick, a... Read full biography
Spencer Baird Nichols' childhood was spent in Washington, D.C. where he attended the Corcoran School of Art and the Washington Art Students' League. At the Corcoran he studied under Howard Helmick, a student of James McNeill Whistler. At the age of 17, he was appointed an Instructor of Illustration... Read full biography
Spencer Baird Nichols' childhood was spent in Washington, D.C. where he attended the Corcoran School of Art and the Washington Art Students' League. At the Corcoran he studied under Howard Helmick, a student of James McNeill Whistler. At the age of 17, he was appointed an Instructor of Illustration at the Art Students' League. His father, Henry Hobart Nichols, was an eminent wood engraver who won a gold medal at the 1876 Centennial Exhibit in Philadelphia. Spencer worked for the Geological... Read full biography
Spencer Baird Nichols' childhood was spent in Washington, D.C. where he attended the Corcoran School of Art and the Washington Art Students' League. At the Corcoran he studied under Howard Helmick, a student of James McNeill Whistler. At the age of 17, he was appointed an Instructor of Illustration at the Art Students' League. His father, Henry Hobart Nichols, was an eminent wood engraver who won a gold medal at the 1876 Centennial Exhibit in Philadelphia. Spencer worked for the Geological Survey and the National Museum. A portrait of Andrew Stephenson, Speaker of the House, by him, hangs in the Speaker's Lobby of the House of Representatives. For a number of years until World War I, he was Chief Designer of the Louis Comfort Tiffany... Read full biography
Spencer Baird Nichols' childhood was spent in Washington, D.C. where he attended the Corcoran School of Art and the Washington Art Students' League. At the Corcoran he studied under Howard Helmick, a student of James McNeill Whistler. At the age of 17, he was appointed an Instructor of Illustration at the Art Students' League. His father, Henry Hobart Nichols, was an eminent wood engraver who won a gold medal at the 1876 Centennial Exhibit in Philadelphia. Spencer worked for the Geological Survey and the National Museum. A portrait of Andrew Stephenson, Speaker of the House, by him, hangs in the Speaker's Lobby of the House of Representatives. For a number of years until World War I, he was Chief Designer of the Louis Comfort Tiffany studios, designing mosaics*, windows and interiors, as well as painting murals for the firm, all under... Read full biography
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Spencer Baird Nichols' childhood was spent in Washington, D.C. where he attended the Corcoran School of Art and the Washington Art Students' League. At the Corcoran he studied under Howard Helmick, a student of James McNeill Whistler. At the age of 17, he was appointed an Instructor of Illustration at the Art Students' League.
His father, Henry Hobart Nichols, was an eminent wood engraver who won a gold medal at the 1876 Centennial Exhibit in Philadelphia.
Spencer worked for the Geological Survey and the National Museum. A portrait of Andrew Stephenson, Speaker of the House, by him, hangs in the Speaker's Lobby of the House of Representatives.
For a number of years until World War I, he was Chief Designer of the Louis Comfort Tiffany studios, designing mosaics*, windows and interiors, as well as painting murals for the firm, all under the signature of Tiffany. He did murals for the WPA* in the Kent, Litchfield and New Milford schools in Connecticut.
He served for a short time during the Spanish American War and during the first World War was a navy camafleur.
Illustrations of children's books were his favorite, and he did Dickens's Christmas Carols, Oscar Wilde's Little Prince, and a number of books of poetry by Alfred Noyes published by Frederick A. Stokes & Company.
Among his many prizes were the 3rd Corcoran Prize, Society of Washington Artists and at the National Academy of Design* two Ranger Fund Purchase Awards and the coveted Altman prize.
Much of Mr. Nichol's work was destroyed in a disastrous fire in his house and studio in 1932. From 1934 he was Director of Art at Marot Jr. College in Thompson, Connecticut until 1941 when the school closed.
He was a member of the Washington Water Color Club, Society of Washington
Artists, The Salmagundi Club*, the National Arts Club*, and was elected as an Associate of the National Academy of Design*, and in 1933 to the status of full academician
Submitted by Helen Nichols Jacobs, his daughter
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