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Ben Nicholson

[British Abstract Painter, 1894-1982]

• Relationships: Husband of Winifred Nicholson (1920, separated in 1931), and later Barbara Hepworth (1938-1951).
Son of Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde Nicholson.
Member of the Abstraction-Creation Group in Paris, 1930s.
Member of the American Abstract Artists group.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
2 works by Ben Nicholson online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK
Crowned Head

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Storm over Paros, 1965

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Still life (Alice through the looking glass), 1946

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2 drawings online

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
1941

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Painting 1937, 1937

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)  

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
December 2, 1951 (Burgundy), 1951

Manchester City Art Gallery, UK

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)  

Museum of London, UK
Barbara Hepworth in the Mall Studio, 1932

Museum of London, UK
5 Circles, 1934

National Museums and Galleries of Wales

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England
Still Life - Cerulean, 1946

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid   NEW!

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Lucca, 1953

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
St. Ives Cornwall, Composition, 1934

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Ben Nicholson at the The British Museum, London, UK

The Hepworth Wakefield, England
Piquet, 1933

The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago
Information about a 1996 exhibition

Wakefield Art Gallery (now closed permanently), England   NEW!
The gallery collection will be moved to the new Hepworth Wakefield, to open in 2010

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK   NEW!
May 1954 (Delos)

 
Commercial Galleries:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

 
Other Web Sites:
British Council Arts Group

UK Government Art Collection

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Ben Nicholson
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
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Time Magazine
"Landscape on a Tabletop: A major retrospective for Ben Nicholson", 1979 article by Robert Hughes

  
 
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