Nicolas Carone
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Fulbright Fellowship; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award |
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Nicolas Carone (June 4, 1917 – July 15, 2010) belonged to the early generation of
Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Conrad Marca-Relli and others, became a leading art movement
of the postwar era.
Biography
Carone was born June 4, 1917, into an Italian-American family in
Academy of Fine Arts
.
In 1941 he won the
Fulbright Fellowship. Both gave him an opportunity to study art in Italy. During his time in Italy after World War II, he came into personal contact with important Italian painters, particularly Giorgio Morandi
.
After returning to the US, Carone continued to paint and exhibited works in the
Jungian psychology. He was a good friend of Jackson Pollock, a noted abstract painter. He was later interviewed by authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith for their biography, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
.
Nicolas Carone's work is in the collections of museums including the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Mobile Museum of Art. Recent exhibits of his work were held at the Washburn Gallery in New York City from February 2 to March 31, 2012,[2] and the Watson MacRae Gallery in South Florida from March 2 to April 3, 2010.[3] His work was exhibited by a number of galleries, including at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Frumkin Gallery, Stable Gallery, and Staempfli Gallery.[4]
Carone taught at universities including
Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock?[5]
He died July 15, 2010, at the age of 93.[6][7][8]
References
- ISBN 0-9677994-0-6, pp.16, 19
- ^ "Washburn Gallery – Nicolas Carone". washburngallery.com.
- ^ "Nicolas Carone – Watson MacRae". watsonmacraegallery.com.
- ^ "Anita Shapolsky Gallery NYC". anitashapolskygallery.com. Archived from the original on March 22, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
- ^ "Nicolas Carone: Jazz, Poetry, and Jackson Pollock", Fine Art Investigations blog, 2 May 2012
- ^ Lindsay Pollock News, Painter Nicholas Carone 1917–2010 Archived November 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved July 21, 2010
- ^ "Joren Lindholm's IMX Matter". eyemxmatter.blogspot.com. July 16, 2010.
- ^ Smith, Roberta (July 29, 2010). "Nicolas Carone, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 93". The New York Times.
Sources
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless An Illustrated Survey With Artists' Statements, Artwork and Biographies. (New York School Press, 2009.) ISBN 978-0-9677994-2-1. p. 64–67
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4. p. 74–77
- Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6. p. 8; p. 16; p. 19; p. 25; p. 36; p. 94–97
- Leja, Michael, "Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s. Yale University Press. 1993. ISBN 0-300-07082-9
- Hilton Kramer, Nicolas Carone Shows He’s Still Unsurpassed On the Female Nude | The New York Observer Nov. 2005
- Nicolas Carone at the Lohin Geduld Gallery: list of exhibitions Nicolas Carone (American), 1917: Featured artist works, exhibitions and biography fromLohin Geduld Gallery
- Thomas Longhi, The Brooklyn Rail
External links
- Smithsonian Archive Interview [1]
- New York Studio School [2]
- Brooklyn Rail interview
- 9th Street Art Exhibition-abstract expressionist artists reminisce on YouTube
- Nicolas Carone-Abstract Expressionism-Artist of the 9th Street Art Exhibition on YouTube
- Nicolas Carone: In Memoriam by David Rigsbee, The Brooklyn Rail
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