Download Printable PDF (73 K)NICOLAS CARONE
Born: June 4, 1917 in New York
Education
1928-1931 -Leonardo da Vinci School of Art
1937-1938 -Art Students League, New York
1939-1942 -The National Academy of Design, New York
1945-1946 -Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts, New York
1947-1951 -American Academy, Rome
Public Collections
Baltimore Museum of Art
Brandeis University, Waltham
Ciba-Geigy Corp., Ardsley
Charles Hassam Fund
Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art
Getai Group, Japan
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
The 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
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Syracuse University
Tate Modern, London
Union Carbide Corp., Danbury
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C.
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
1958 -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
2008 -Washburn Gallery, New York
Major Group Exhibitions
1948 -Modern Museum, Rome
-Rome American Foundation
-Rome Quadriennale
1951 -Ninth Street Show, New York
1953-58 -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"
1963-64 -Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Hans Hoffman 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
1969 -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"
2006 -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 -Prix de Rome
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
Professional Experience
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
WPA, Worchester War Memorial Mural, 1938-1941, Assistant to Leon Kroll
Yale University, New Haven