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1921 Budapest, Hungary - 2009 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Known for: Portrait, figure and animal painting, war artist.
Jack Nichols (1921–2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec. He worked for a time with Frederick Horsman Varley and Louis Muhlstock. For a few summers during the early 1940s, he worked as a... Read full biography
Jack Nichols (1921–2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec. He worked for a time with Frederick Horsman Varley and Louis Muhlstock. For a few summers during the early 1940s, he worked as a deckhand on cargo boats plying the Great Lakes. In 1943, the National Gallery of Canada commissioned... Read full biography
Jack Nichols (1921–2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec. He worked for a time with Frederick Horsman Varley and Louis Muhlstock. For a few summers during the early 1940s, he worked as a deckhand on cargo boats plying the Great Lakes. In 1943, the National Gallery of Canada commissioned him to depict the activities of the Canadian Merchant Navy and he left on a mission to the Caribbean with Michael Forster. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in February 1944 and worked as an... Read full biography
Jack Nichols (1921–2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec. He worked for a time with Frederick Horsman Varley and Louis Muhlstock. For a few summers during the early 1940s, he worked as a deckhand on cargo boats plying the Great Lakes. In 1943, the National Gallery of Canada commissioned him to depict the activities of the Canadian Merchant Navy and he left on a mission to the Caribbean with Michael Forster. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in February 1944 and worked as an official war artist from April 1944 to August 1945. Most of his works depict the landing operations at Normandy and destroyer movements off Brest. He obtained a Guggenheim fellowship that allowed him to travel and paint in United States in 1947 and... Read full biography
Jack Nichols (1921–2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec. He worked for a time with Frederick Horsman Varley and Louis Muhlstock. For a few summers during the early 1940s, he worked as a deckhand on cargo boats plying the Great Lakes. In 1943, the National Gallery of Canada commissioned him to depict the activities of the Canadian Merchant Navy and he left on a mission to the Caribbean with Michael Forster. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in February 1944 and worked as an official war artist from April 1944 to August 1945. Most of his works depict the landing operations at Normandy and destroyer movements off Brest. He obtained a Guggenheim fellowship that allowed him to travel and paint in United States in 1947 and 1948. He taught at the Vancouver School of Art in 1948. He won a prize at the Second International Exhibition of Drawing and En... Read full biography
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Keywords (19)
Art Method
- •Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Chalk
- •Charcoal
- •Engraving, Engraver
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •War Scenes, Military Genre, Figure, Portrait, Battles
Art School
- •Vancouver School of Art, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Added Description
- •Combat, War Artist: Illustration, Painting or Photography
- •War Artist
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art, National Gallery
- •Venice Biennale