Thomas Nicholas

Juried Artist Member since 1958

Tom Nicholas, N.A., A.W.S. was born in Middletown, Connecticut in 1934. From 1953 to 1956 he was a scholarship student at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. In 1961 he received an invitational Greenshield Grant for two years of painting abroad and in the U.S.A. Tom is an Academician of the National Academy of Design and a Dolphin Fellow of the American Watercolor Society. His many awards include 45 Medals of Honor received nationally as well as regionally. He has had over 40 one-artist shows in New York City, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, California, Florida, Texas and Maine exhibiting oils and watercolors. Since 1960 Tom has painted throughout Europe and the United States. Listings include: Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in the East and many art magazine articles. Tom's work is in many private and public collections including the Farnsworth Museum, Maine; the Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; Springfield Art Museum, Missouri; Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts and the Hispanic Society of American, New York City. He has 80 images in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.

All images ©Tom Nicholas