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Biography |
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1894 |
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Born in Denham, Buckinghamshire (son of artist Sir William Nicholson) |
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1903 - 1910 |
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Educated at Heddon Court and at Gresham Court |
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1910 - 1911 |
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Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art |
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1912 - 1914 |
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Travelled in France, Italy and Spain |
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1917 - 1918 |
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Lived in Pasadena, California |
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1933 |
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Co-founded Unit One, with Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Edward Burra, Paul Nash and Edward Wadsworth, among others |
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1924 - 1935 |
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Member of the 7 & 5 Society |
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1937 |
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Together with Naum Gabo and Leslie Martin, edited Circle: International Survey of Constructivist Art |
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1943 - 1949 |
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Joins St Ives Society of Artists and exhibits with them |
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1949 |
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Founding member of Penwith Society of Arts in Cornwall |
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1951 |
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Nicholson was commissioned to paint a mural for the Festival of Britain |
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1952 |
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Commissioned to paint a mural for the Time-Life Building in London |
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1952 |
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Awarded first prize for painting at the 39th International Exhibition (Carnegie International) |
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1954 |
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Ulisse Award |
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1956 |
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Won the first Guggenheim International Painting prize |
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1957 |
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Won the prize for painting at the Sao Paolo Bienal |
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1964 |
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Made a concrete wall relief for the Documenta III exhibition in Kassel, Germany |
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1968 |
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Awarded the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth |
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1958 - 1971 |
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Lived and worked in Switzerland |
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1971 |
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Returned to England |
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1974 |
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Rembrandt Prize |
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1982 |
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Died in London, England |
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Exhibitions |
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1993 |
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Tate Modern, London (retrospective) |
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1978 |
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (retrospective) |
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1969 |
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Tate Modern, London (retrospective) |
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1964 |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas (retrospective) |
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1961 |
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Kunsthalle, Berne (retrospective) |
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1955 |
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Tate Gallery, London (retrospective) |
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1954 |
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Venice Biennale and Tate Modern, London (retrospective) |
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1952 |
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Detroit Institute of Arts and the Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis (retrospective) |
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1944 |
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Leeds Art Gallery (retrospective) |
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1936 |
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Cubism and Abstract Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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1935 |
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‘Artists against Fascism’, London |
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1935 |
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‘Exposition internationale d’art moderne,’ Brussels |
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1932 |
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Lefevre Gallery, London |
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1932 |
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Arthur Tooth and Sons, London |
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1931 |
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Bloomsbury gallery, London |
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1928 |
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Lefevre Gallery, London |
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1927 |
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Beaux Arts Gallery, London |
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1924 |
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Twenty-one Gallery, London (solo) |
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1923 |
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Joint exhibition with Winifred Nicholson at Patterson’s gallery, London |
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1922 |
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Adelphi Gallery, London (solo) |
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