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Ben Nicholson
Artist's Name: Ben Nicholson
Preferred medium: painting
birth year: 1894
Nationality: GB
City: London

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Ben Nicholson - Profile

Ben Nicholson is recognised as one of the greatest British artists of the twentieth century. He first came to prominence in the 1930s as a pioneer of abstract art, but also retained a life-long interest in the depiction of landscape and the still-life. In 1939, with his wife (the sculptor Barbara Hepworth), Nicholson moved to Cornwall. He lived in or close to St Ives until 1958, when he moved to Switzerland. During this period Nicholson and Hepworth became prominent members of a celebrated artists' colony which included Naum Gabo, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. This display will consist of works in the Gallery's permanent collection, as well as a group of private loans. It will look at Nicholson's long and prolific career, from his Cumbrian landscape Walton Wood Cottage No.1 of 1928, to his seminal abstract White Relief of 1935. It will illustrate his response to the Cornish landscape and the work he made following his move to Switzerland, including June 1961 (Green Goblet and Blue Square). (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art )

important exhibitions from Ben Nicholson

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Mondrian || Nicholson: In Parallel Courtauld Institute of Art London GB 10.02.2012
A Continuous Line: Ben Nicholson in England Tate St. Ives St. Ives GB 24.01.2009
Picasso and Modern British Art Metropolitan Museum New York US 15.02.2012
Picasso and Modern British Art Tate Britain London GB 15.02.2012
Ben Nicholson De La Warr Pavillon Bexhill on Sea GB 11.10.2008
Gesehen & Geliebt # 2: Pots & Paper Museum Ludwig Köln DE 01.06.2010
ABSTRACTION AND THE HUMAN FIGURE Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Camjap) Lissabon PT 22.01.2010
Picasso and Modern British Art National Galleries of Scotland Edinburgh GB 04.08.2012
Ben Nicholson Abbot Hall Art Gallery Cumbria GB 07.07.2008
The Last Grand Tour Museum of Cycladic Art, Athen Athen GR 15.04.2011

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Galleries representing
Ben Nicholson:

Bernard Jacobson Gallery
Boisserée Galerie
Crane Kalman Gallery
Galerie Haas AG
Galerie Marwan Hoss
Galleria Blu
Galleria De Foscherari
Helly Nahmad Gallery
Marlborough Galerie London
Studio Dabbeni, closed
The Fine Art Society
Waddington Galleries

Collections representing
Ben Nicholson

Abbot Hall Art Gallery
Arts Council Collection
Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango - Museo de Arte del Banco de la República
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
Cleveland Museum of Art
Deutsche Bank Collection
Kettle's Yard
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art
Leeds City Art Gallery
MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro
Manchester Art Gallery
MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art
Museo Cantonale d'Arte Lugano
Museum DKM, Duisburg
National Galleries of Scotland
National Gallery of Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Tate Britain
Tate St. Ives
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Berardo Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art
Wolverhampton Art Gallery