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Born 1924 New York City. Known for: Charcoal on paper drawing.
The following text is from The New York Observer, published 8/28/2000. "Emily Nelligan Rescued From Charcoal Island" by Hilton Kramer. At the age of 76, the American artist Emily Nelligan has... Read full biography
The following text is from The New York Observer, published 8/28/2000. "Emily Nelligan Rescued From Charcoal Island" by Hilton Kramer. At the age of 76, the American artist Emily Nelligan has suddenly been "discovered." Ms. Nelligan's work, which is entirely devoted to charcoal drawings of Great... Read full biography
The following text is from The New York Observer, published 8/28/2000. "Emily Nelligan Rescued From Charcoal Island" by Hilton Kramer. At the age of 76, the American artist Emily Nelligan has suddenly been "discovered." Ms. Nelligan's work, which is entirely devoted to charcoal drawings of Great Cranberry Island off the coast of Maine, has for many years been admired and collected by certain artists and writers on art, myself included, but it remained more or less unknown to the public. I first... Read full biography
The following text is from The New York Observer, published 8/28/2000. "Emily Nelligan Rescued From Charcoal Island" by Hilton Kramer. At the age of 76, the American artist Emily Nelligan has suddenly been "discovered." Ms. Nelligan's work, which is entirely devoted to charcoal drawings of Great Cranberry Island off the coast of Maine, has for many years been admired and collected by certain artists and writers on art, myself included, but it remained more or less unknown to the public. I first heard about these drawings in the 1980's from the painter Lois Dodd and the sculptor Philip Grausman, and I bought one out of a small gallery show in Georgetown, Me., in 1987. Now, with the exhibition called "Littoral Abstractions: Drawings by Emily... Read full biography
The following text is from The New York Observer, published 8/28/2000. "Emily Nelligan Rescued From Charcoal Island" by Hilton Kramer. At the age of 76, the American artist Emily Nelligan has suddenly been "discovered." Ms. Nelligan's work, which is entirely devoted to charcoal drawings of Great Cranberry Island off the coast of Maine, has for many years been admired and collected by certain artists and writers on art, myself included, but it remained more or less unknown to the public. I first heard about these drawings in the 1980's from the painter Lois Dodd and the sculptor Philip Grausman, and I bought one out of a small gallery show in Georgetown, Me., in 1987. Now, with the exhibition called "Littoral Abstractions: Drawings by Emily Nelligan" that Alison Ferris has mounted this summer at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Me.-the artist's first sol... Read full biography
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Art Media
- •Charcoal
- •Works on Paper
Art School
- •Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
Added Description
- •Drawing Specialty
- •Married to an Artist