“Since his days as a Rome Prize winner, Graham Nickson has frequently set himself marathon tasks of periodic painting from life of the setting or rising sun, undertakings that speak to his legendary tenacity, aesthetic obstinacy (the romantic subject dismissed as cheesy) and indefatigable delving into the mysteries of color.” DAVID COHEN
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Graham Nickson: Paintings 1972-2011 Paths of the Sun, September 15 to October 29, 2011, at Knoedler & Company, 19 East 70th Street.
Graham Nickson, Todi Sunrise, 2006. Watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 inches. Courtesy of Knoedler & Company
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