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Ben Nicholson    (British, 1894-1982)




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Biography
1894 Born in Denham, Buckinghamshire (son of artist Sir William Nicholson)
1910 - 1911 Studied at the Slade School
1912 - 1914 Travelled in France, Italy and Spain
1917 - 1918 Lived in Pasadena, California
1933 Co-founded Unit One, with Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Edward Burra, Paul Nash and Edward Wadsworth, among others
1924 - 1935 Member of the 7 & 5 Society
1937 Together with Naum Gabo and Leslie Martin, edited Circle: International Survey of Constructivist Art
1951 Nicholson was commissioned to paint a mural for the Festival of Britain
1952 Commissioned to paint a mural for the Time-Life Building in London
1956 Won the first Guggenheim International Painting prize
1957 Won the prize for painting at the Sao Paolo Bienal
1964 Made a concrete wall relief for the Documenta III exhibition in Kassel, Germany
1968 Awarded the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth
1958 - 1971 Lived and worked in Switzerland
1971 Returned to England
1982 Died in England

Exhibitions
1993 Tate Modern, London (retrospective)
1978 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (retrospective)
1969 Tate Modern, London (retrospective)
1964 Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas (retrospective)
1961 Kunsthalle, Berne (retrospective)
1954 Venice Biennale and Tate Modern, London (retrospective)
1924 Twenty-one Gallery, London (solo)
1922 Adelphi Gallery, London (solo)
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