The Don Nice Foundation is dedicated to bringing to fruition a public art installation that the late artist Don Nice had envisioned and developed over many years. This project, known as the Rose Project, seeks to realize one of Nice's most significant artistic dreams: a monumental field of 40 large, seven foot, rose sculptures. We are currently seeking a grant and partnership to assist with the placement and fabrication costs of this important work.
Please click on the attached below to learn more about this amazing endeavor.
In Rivers Flow / Artists Connect, American artists from the 1820s to the present day explore and illuminate our profound, symbiotic relationship with significant rivers across the globe, from the Hudson and the Susquehanna to the Indus and the Seine.
The cultural, social, and spiritual significance of rivers is universal, as proven by their enduring presence in art and in our collective imagination. In Rivers Flow / Artists Connect, American artists from the 1820s to the present day explore and illuminate our profound, symbiotic relationship with significant rivers across the globe, from the Hudson and the Susquehanna to the Indus and the Seine.
The Hudson River Museum’s new West Wing galleries, basking in a dramatic view of the Hudson River and the Palisades, are an opportune setting for this exhibition. It features works by more than forty exceptional artists exploring various aspects of river subject matter from diverse perspectives and heritages, through realistic depiction and symbolic representation. Together, the artists demonstrate—in painting, prints, photographs, sculpture, and video—their role in recalling and reinforcing our instinctive connection with rivers.
The exhibition considers these bodies of water through aesthetic, functional, spiritual, and ecological lenses. The Allure of the River section addresses the interrelation of scenic beauty and our attraction to rivers. In Sustainer of Life, artists investigate the essential need for access to rivers for water, food, and transportation—our daily infrastructure—as well as profound sacred connections. Finally, Endangered Rivers: A Call to Action reflects on urbanization, industry, and the critical need for continued conservation and activism.
In many ways, the artists and the rivers they depict are kindred spirits. Just as rivers shape the land and surmount obstacles on their inexorable journey to the sea, artists also boldly confront barriers and challenges, from land access to environmental change. Their creative expressions help us see rivers with new eyes, and perhaps even a renewed sense of wonder, connection, and purpose, as we consider our own community’s rivers and our own responsibility for stewardship.
The estate of Don Nice is delighted to announce the establishment of the Don Nice Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving Nice’s artistic legacy and continuing his long-standing work in support of the environment.
Nice was renowned for his monumental works that seamlessly blended realism and abstraction and explored the core forces of nature. His art vividly portrays the beauty, vibrancy, and diversity of natural environments, as well as the complex relationship between humanity and the natural world. Nice embraced in an aesthetic context the idea that nature is the force of life, and we are all a part of it.
Nice’s work gained international recognition and has been exhibited in significant gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the US, England, France, Holland, Germany and Australia. Notably, his works are included in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
Raised in rural Visalia California, as a boy Nice roamed in the local citrus groves and worked close to the land as a cowhand, which profoundly influenced his artistic vision. He recounted that “I became acquainted with the world not by television, car, train or jet- but from the saddle of a horse or the leather of my own boots: slow, steady and in a focused way”
In 1969, after pursuing his career in the more urban environments, he moved his family from New York City to the Hudson River Valley. Soon after arriving he received the heartbreaking news of the loss of his brother Hubert, a botanist, who fell victim to exposure to insecticides. Processing that tragedy, and immersed in a new, inspirational, and storied landscape, Nice found that nature itself- the Earth as an ecological system- as a subject- came into clearer view. It “ infused itself into my consciousness and began surfacing in my paintings, quite outside of my control.”
At the same time, he connected with influential figures at the heart of the environmental movement that was igniting in the area, such as John Adams at National Resources Defense Council and Open Space Institute, and Pete Seeger at Clearwater. Nice supported their early and continuing advocacy efforts through his art and his connections in the arts community.
Throughout his career, Nice created editions and donated works for fundraising efforts. He also served as artist in residence and held classes and workshops for arts and environmental organizations that brought individuals to a heightened understanding of environments in need of protection. He employed not only his extraordinary technical skill, but also his keen wit and gregarious nature to help others develop a deeper connection to nature and art.
“The formation of the Don Nice Foundation comes at an incredibly relevant time, in the midst of our current climate crisis” according to Leslie Nice, Foundation President. “My father understood earlier than most the urgency of the challenges faced by the earth, carrying an unwavering message across seven decades of work.” The Don Nice Foundation aims to continue his substantial impact, partnering with like-minded organizations to introduce his work to new audiences and continue to use art as a vehicle to creatively advocate for better stewardship of the Earth.”
This tribute to Master Lithographer Fred Genis, showcases the incredible legacy of work he produced from 1968 to1974 in New York.
During his forty year career, Genis worked with world renowned artists from USA, Europe and Australia, collaborating with a total of eighty artists, leaving a significant international contribution to the fine arts.
A revival of the lithographic art form in America during the late sixties and early seventies saw Genis working as a partner in the Hollanders Workshop in New York. He created works with some great American artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Willem De Kooning, James Rosenquist, Don Nice, John Cage, Robert Morris, to name a few.
Young Americans features key iconic works from Pop art images like James Rosenquist’s Spaghetti, Don Nice’s Big Sneaker and Tootsie Pops prints to John Cage’s collaborative Mushroom Book to Robert Morris’s political anti Vietnam War series.
This is a rare opportunity to view and purchase your own original artworks by some of these great American Artists.
Fred Genis (1934 Amersfoort, Netherlands – 2022 Mullumbimby, Australia)
Fred Genis, a Master Lithographer and Dutchman, was the first celebrity printer in Australia.
Genis was a partner in the Hollanders Workshop in New York in the late 60’s, early 70’s, working with artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Willem De Kooning, Sam Francis, Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers and James Rosenquist to name a few. He then set up a workshop in Holland for 7 years and packed up to move his family to Australia setting up a workshop in Sydney in 1979. He printed editions with John Olsen and Tim Storrier, Brett Whitely and Lloyd Rees, to name a few over a period of 30 years until his retirement 2007.
Lithography requires a unique personal collaboration between artist and printer, he described his part in this highly technical process as being ‘like water’ – quiescent, fluid, unformed, but able at any instant to show, suggest, assist or even withhold’.
Genis enjoyed a rich, adventurous and fun life together with his wife, Rina and three daughters. He lived in Possum Creek, New South Wales for 22 years until he passed away in 2022 at age 88.
Fred Genis left a major contribution to the art world through his incredible legacy. Many of the works he printed are held in major collections such as the MOMA in New York, the Tate Modern in London, The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, and many, many more.
Don Nice maintained a studio in Garrison, overlooking the Hudson River, for over 50 years, and was an integral part of the fabric of the arts community in the region as well as an internationally recognized practitioner of environmentally focused art. Don Nice- GAIA examines Nice’s last series of “Earth Spinners”, a body of work situated within his lifelong engagement with environmental concerns, yet exploring a new mode of representation of our relationship to the earth as our host. Meant to be viewed as part of an immersive environment, this exciting installation brings his artistic vision full circle- directly referencing the central premise of scientist and writer James Lovelock, The Gaia Hypothesis, “ a model of the Earth in which its living and non living parts…can be thought of as a single organism.” Lovelock’s work served as an inspiration throughout Nice’s career. The works in Don Nice- GAIA also exuberantly celebrate the abstract brushwork which defined Nice’s early works from the 50’s and 60’s, before his rise to prominence in the late 1960’s as a “New Perceptual Realist.”
Nice’s work is included in over 70 museums- from the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art and the Albany Institute of History and Art here in the Hudson River Valley, to the Metropolitan Museum , the Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, Crystal Bridges, The Art Gallery of Ontario, and the National Museum of Art, Australia.
Don Nice - GAIA, is presented at the Don Nice archive and project space, recently established in Dover Plains, NY, by the artist's daughter Leslie Nice, agent for the artist’s estate. The space, which does not maintain regular public hours, will be free and open to the public for the duration of the Upstate Art Weekend, Fri 10-7, Sat 10-7, Sun 10-7. The 6,000 square foot space offers exhibition and viewing areas and an outside space, allowing ample room for any covid protocols.
This Earth Day, the estate of Don Nice honors his legacy by issuing a special limited edition of his iconic trout image, on an elegant stainless steel bottle. For reuse and enjoyment, to help the earth. These bottles continue Nice’s practice of engagement with the public, illuminating concern for the environment through his art, and financially supporting environmental advocacy organizations with his work. “My intention in my art is to bring the public closer and I hope more empathetic towards our host planet.” Don Nice For more information about this project, please visit http://www.donniceeditions.com
American landscape paintings have always been intertwined with explorations of the great outdoors. In the mid-nineteenth century, many artists meditated on the sublimity of nature, whether gazing at the Hudson River’s Palisades or embarking on a far-ranging tour. Landscape painters brought distant places into the homes of their patrons and, popularized in books and prints, landscape art inspired a growing middle class to travel to these destinations. Artists continue to bring the world to us and send us out on our own adventures to this day.
Details about the journey of Don Nice on the Hudson River in 1999 and show at the Hudson River Museum in 2000
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Artists on Show
Alison Moritsugu, Cynthia Daignault, David Hockney, Don Nice, Frohawk Two Feathers, Hudson River School, Hudson Valley, James McElhinney, Jermy Dennis, Jordan Matter, Marie Louise, Richard Mayhew, Thomas Cole, Thomas Moran
PopArt | Exhibition opening 22nd of January 2020
15. JANUARY 2020 / BEATRIS
Galerie Barbara von Stechow is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a group exhibition of outstanding artists of PopArt.
ALEX KATZ | KEITH HARING | TOM WESSELMANN | FORD BACKMAN
ANDY WARHOL | ROY LICHTENSTEIN | DON NICE | HEINER MEYER
We cordially invite you to the opening of PopArt
on Wednesday, the 22nd of January, from 6:30 p.m.
Duration of the exhibition: 23rd January -22nd February 2019
Galerie Barbara vonStechow
Feldbergstraße 28, 60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
For the sheer fun of it, nothing beats the theme of animals in art. This rip-roaring show assembles a circus parade of the wild and the woolly, from the big cats (lions, tigers, leopards and others) to the sheep and bunnies beloved by all (including the cats). The roll call of major talents represented in the show whose paintings, drawings, and sculpture have immortalized the wild kingdom includes many of the top dogs in art history, including Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, John James Audubon and Jeff Koons among many others (there are over a hundred works on view). As a special treat, a lavishly colorful installation by the world-renowned artist and designer Hunt Slonem will transform the elegant rooms of the mansion into a dream-like sanctuary for parrots, rabbits and butterflies, his signature motifs. This show within a show, titled Eden Never Ends, includes not just a dazzling array of paintings but an unforgettable installation of fabrics and extravagant furniture designed by Hunt Slonem, created expressly for this show. It is an Instagram opportunity not to be missed!
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Don Nice - 2018 Recipient of The Lee Krasner Award in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement for his distinguished career.
Pier 94
12th Avenue at 55th Street
New York New York 10019
Presented by Galerie Barbara von Stechow booth 102
INTERNATIONALCONTEMPORARY•MODERN ART FAIR
Please join us for the official opening of Bivins Gallery featuring select works by 21 of our celebrated artists!
This Saturday, January 28 2017, 5-8pm
Enjoy Wines, New Views and enchanting performances by Bruce Wood Dance Project! Artists will be in Attendance!
RSVP to : Julia@BivinsGallery.com
Artists:
Fletcher Benton | Carole Feuerman | Linda Fleming | Phil Gleason | Robert Graham | Dana Hart-Stone | Richard Hickam | Tom Holland | Mildred Howard | Robert Hudson | Denis Mikhaylov | Harry Moody | Craig Nagasawa | Don Nice | Irene Pijoan | Richard Shaw | Tonio Trzebinski | Lidia Vitkovskaya | Brian Wall | Mary Hull Webster | Jack Whitten | William T. Wiley
Bivins Gallery | 300 Crescent Ct. | Suite 100 | 214.272.2795 |www.bivinsgallery.com
We are pleased to announce Don Nice will be exhibited by Barbara von Stechow
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The Riverside Galleries at Garrison Art Center will feature a retrospective of selected fine art posters by renowned American artist Don Nice. Don NiceICON: 40 Years of Posters, August 13 – September 11, 2016 with an opening reception on August 13 from 5-7 pm. www.garrisonartcenter.org 845-424.3960
Pace Prints is pleased to present a selection of recent editions and monoprints by George Condo, Shepard Fairey, Keith Haring, Daniel Heidkamp, Don Nice, Santi Moix, Pat Steir and Reginald Sylvester II.
DRISCOLL BABCOCK GALLERIES presents Don Nice: The Presence ofEmblems, a selection of works from the master chronicler of American popular culture objects. Nice’s new single image paintings include images of beer cans, sneakers, Ray Bans and color crayons, exploring the impressive and noteworthy markers of our collective material culture. These works build on his early abstract expressionist brushwork and coloration, carefully cultivated to articulate his interest in quotidian elements of everyday life. In Nice’s paintings the everyday becomes monumental, the disposable becomes iconic and American consumer culture is served up for millennial eyes.
Nice’s tongue-in-cheek approach turns Chuck Taylor sneakers into totems that reveal a narrative, and articulate the artist’s keen interest in the recognition of symbols and their compelling power. Beyond the surface, these objects we encounter every day suggest a poignant critique of contemporary America and our role in the greater creation of culture. Nice’s icons are presented crumpled and used. In one example, an iconic red, white and blue Pabst Blue Ribbon beer can is dented and discarded. The resulting irregular angles in the surface allow viewers to examine the object, and its ubiquity in America, through a lens that is both critical and nostalgically wistful. The paintings do not show the clean, crisp and manicured image presented in advertising, but objects that are marked with use, with beauty and poetry in the folds of gum wrappers and translucent plastic packaging. Don Nice takes Edward Hopper’s early mandate for the isolation of objects, and Wayne Thiebaud’s frothy luscious surfaces, and transforms them into his own signature series of images that play with the symbols of contemporary culture, and dig beneath the familiar surface to give presence to that which we usually give little attention.
Pace Prints is pleased to present Don Nice: Prints & Watercolors, on view June 23–July 22, 2016 at its 32 East 57th Street gallery. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Wednesday, June 22, 5-7pm.
Don Nice’s refreshingly vibrant watercolors evoke the imagery of the Pop Art era, depicting familiar and nostalgic packaged foods such as Hershey’s candy wrappers, Planters Peanuts and Ritz Crackers. The paintings employ a distinctive style and a highly skilled use of the watercolor medium to energize each image and depart from the static nature of traditional Pop Art. As Antonia D. Bryan writes in the artist’s biography, Nice’s work shifts between the personal and the universal, the representational and the abstract.
A selection of the artist’s etchings and color lithographs, totems of American leisure, will also be on view in the exhibition.
Don Nice was born in Visalia, California in 1932. He received a BFA at the University of Southern California and an MFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT. Nice’s interest in the American landscape began at a young age in California’s San Joaquin Valley, where his family instilled working class values and nurtured his burgeoning art-making practice. Nice served in the United States Army at Fort Ord before taking advantage of the GI bill and setting out on a trip to Rome in 1957. He spent the following two years in Florence, being drawn to the beauty of the landscape and the art historical legacy of Europe. From the late 1970s on, Nice would depict distinctly American motifs in his work, exploring his deeply held concerns for the environment and his belief in the interconnectedness of man and nature. His work appears in major public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Nice lives and works in Garrison, NY.
The overall goal of this exhibit was to display works that had not been seen recently by the public, but also works that demonstrated diversity of style and technique. In this exhibit, styles range from representational to photo-realism. Historically, still life paintings were deeply religious or mythological, but today’s still life paintings can be as varied as art trends throughout history. No matter what the subject or style, art is meant to be shared and communicated.
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Koelnmesse | Halle 11.1 | Stand C 048
Mittwoch, 18.11. – Samstag 21.11. | 11 – 19 Uhr
Sonntag, 22.11. | 11 – 18 Uhr
You will find us here:
Kunst 15 Zürich | Stand E 10
ABB Halle 550 | Ricarda–Huch–Straße | Zürich-Oerlikon
OPENING HOURS:
Oct. 29th – 4 – 10 PM
Oct. 30th – 12 AM – 9 PM
Oct. 31st – 11 AM – 7 PM
Nov. 1st – 11 AM – 7 PM
We are looking forward to welcome you!
Barbara von Stechow & Team
We conclude the 52nd season exhibition schedule at the Harmon-Meek Gallery with a group
show built around the theme of fish and fishing as a subject in American Art. Works in the
show include new pieces by Don Nice and works pulled from estates’ storage and artists’
studios including: Adolf Dehn, Balcomb Greene, Herman Maril, Lorrie Goulet, Babette
Bloch, Eliot O’Hara, Philip Morsberger, Stephen Scott Young, Jessica Daryl Winer and Ellie
Barnet.
Following this exhibition, the Harmon-Meek Gallery will be open by appointment only
until November 1st. Our new location, Harmon-Meek|modern will remain open through
the summer months.
Naples, FL – Harmon Gallery opened in Naples in 1964 as a fine art gallery representing Contemporary American Masters. Harmon-Meek Gallery has continued that tradition for more than fifty years now. This group exhibition highlights many of the artists that have been with the gallery since its start in 1964.
Contemporary American Masters exhibition features Don Nice and includes works by Richard Anuszkiewicz, Darrel Austin, Milton Avery, Will Barnet, Byron Browne, Clarence Carter, Jon Corbino, Jose deCreeft, Adolf Dehn, Jimmy Ernst, Lorrie Goulet, Balcomb Greene, Richard Haas, Anita Huffington, Milton Hebald, Bob Kane, Herman Maril, Walter Meigs, Robert Natkin, and Robert Vickrey.
Don Nice is a noted pop artist best known for his monumental singular images – realistic depictions of a singular object such as a lobster, a white sneaker, or a Hershey bar against a blank background – which brought him fame and early success in the 1960s and 1970s. In subsequent decades he explored other subjects and mediums including landscape watercolor, collage and even mobiles, but he has returned to his beloved singular images and created an entire series of brand-new singular image works included in this exhibition.
The exhibition will run through January 9 with hours of 10 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday at 599 Ninth Street North in Naples. Free. Closed New Year’s Day.
Naples, FL – A holiday tradition at the Harmon-Meek Gallery is the annual “Small Works of Art Exhibition”. This year’s version opens on Monday, December 8th and continues through Dec. 27. Hours are 10am to 5pm, Monday through Saturday at 599 Ninth Street North (Tamiami Trail at 6th Avenue North in Naples).
The gallery takes on an entirely different appearance with paintings hung in groupings throughout the display area. Several hundred works are shown in all media from oil and acrylic to egg tempera, watercolor, drawings, and various forms of sculpture.
Harmon-Meek Gallery represents nearly forty master American artists and works by nearly all of these artists will be included in the exhibition. William Meek, gallery director, states that “Often artists put more effort into making a successful small work, than a larger work. To accomplish strong composition, color balance, and interesting design or subject matter in a small format is extremely difficult.” The obvious advantage to acquiring such works is that one can collect more distinguished master artists within a smaller budget and without worrying about finding space in your home!
Some of the artists featured are sculptors: Lorrie Goulet, Barbara Lekberg, John Safer, Anita Huffington* and Milton Hebald. Painters include: Darrel Austin, Robert Vickrey, Bob Kane*, Gary Bukovnik*, Don Nice*, Paul Jenkins, Robert Natkin, Kirk Tatom, Richard Segalman*, John Wilde, Aaron Bohrod, Jimmy Ernst, Herman Maril*, Dan Rizzie*, Tobi Kahn*, Will Barnet, Timothy Clark, Adolf Dehn, Eliot O’Hara, Jon Corbino, Byron Browne, Balcomb Greene, John Falato, Richard Haas, Robert Kipniss, Hunt Slonem*, Stephen Scott Young, and Stanley Boxer.
* indicates artists that will be having a special exhibition this season.
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For the first time, we will show works of the american Artist Don Nice.
Don Nice was born in 1932 in Visalia, Califonia. 1946, at the young age of only 18, he opened his first solo exhibition.
Don Nice studied painting at the University of Southern California and graduated from Yale University with a Master of Fine Arts. Since the 1960s Don Nice established himself as one of the most important artists of the New Realism and the International Pop art scene. With his special focus towards the realism he brought new contents into the art world and especially into the changing art of painting.
Besides the American Pop culture his work refers to critical and current subjects of society and environment. American Products and objects of daily routine inspire his motifs as well as scenes of flora and fauna which sometimes even converge in one artwork. He constantly creates an impressive visualization of the interaction between nature, product and consumption.
His prior fascination and interest regard the object itself. He seeks to clarify and visualize the important idea and traditions of American culture which those apparently marginal objects of daily routine and daily life involve.
The work of Don Nice has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions around the world and is represented in various private and public collections like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art or the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Recently one of his paintings has been sold successfully by the International Auction House Christie's.
Welcoming remarks: Consul General of the United States Kevin C. Milas.
Morgan Anderson Gallery - A survey of 19th and 20th century American prints, drawings, paintings, and sculpture selected from the permanent collection. The SDMA has a special commitment to collecting important works of art created by artists whose careers are linked to the Hudson Valley and Catskill regions. Works from the permanent collection on display in the Morgan Anderson Gallery will include including works by George Inness, Milton Avery, George Bellows, Bolton Coit Brown, Ilya Bolotowsky, Doris Lee, Lilly Ente, Eugene Speicher, Charles Rosen, Austin Mecklem, Theodore Roszak, Richard Segalman, and Don Nice. Many of the artists featured in this gallery were associated with the historic Woodstock Art Colony.
The Tucson Museum of Art presents Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries through May 1, 2005. This exhibition brings together modern and contemporary artists working with traditional painting and sculptural techniques, each with a common bond-the use of metal as the canvas or the form upon which color is applied in a symbiotic melding of surface and substrate.
Laurie J. Rufe, Executive Director, wrote: "On January 28, the Tucson Museum of Art opens Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries, a seminal exhibition developed by Julie Sasse, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the TMA. From pioneering artists like Joan Miró and Alexander Calder to a new legion of explorers like Patti Parsons and Don Nice, this exhibition offers insight into the various artistic investigations that merge the physical qualities of metal ground with painted surface. There are generative works that allow us to look at shifts in art history, examples that confront us with the realities of our world, and works that collapse paint onto metal, blurring what is painted and what is sculptural.
Paint on Metal fills our upper galleries with works by sixty-seven artists from America and Europe: Robert Arneson, Tony Berlant, John Chamberlain, Janet Fish, Nancy Graves, Harmony Hammond, David Kessler, Imi Knoebel, Olivier Mosset, Manual Neri, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Ryman, David Smith, Frank Stella, and Tom Wesselmann among them. My sincere thanks to the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Black River Press, Arizona Commission on the Arts, and our individual patrons for making this exhibition and its related programming possible.
The Delaware Art Museum presents "Great American Icons: Art and Popular Culture in the 1960s and 1970s," on view through November 7, 2002. The 30 works of art in this Downtown Gallery exhibition will explore the interaction between American art and popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s through an examination of shared subject matter, artistic process and style. Utilizing the images and techniques of the mass media, many artists working during these two decades sought to incorporate aspects of advertising, film, the comics and other mass media sources in their work in an effort to reflect the preoccupations and concerns of contemporary American culture. Great American Icons will focus on the signs and symbols of American Post War prosperity, consumerism and entertainment created by the mass media, usually considered outside the limits of fine art, which were incorporated by artists in an effort to eliminate the traditional dichotomies between art and life and between representation and abstraction while blurring the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art.
Great American Icons comprises work by East and West Coast artists selected from the Permanent Collection of the Delaware Art Museum. Included in the exhibition are works by Robert Indiana, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Rivers, Robert Rauschenberg, Audrey Flack, Don Nice and Stephen Shore, as well as Rock & Roll posters for the Fillmore West Auditorium, The Matrix and Webb’s designed by Victor Moscoso, Randy Tuten and David Singer.
