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DALE NICHOLS Threshing Grain.
Watercolor and gouache on artist's illustration board, 1946. 460x635 mm; 18x25 inches. Signed and dated in gouache, lower left recto. Ex-collection private collection, Illinois.
Born in the small town of David City, Nebraska, Nichols (1904-1995) began his career as an artist while studying at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the 1930s, Nichols spent time as a Carnegie visiting professor at the University of Illinois, and in 1942 succeeded fellow Iowa artist Grant Wood as the art editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Nichols spent much of his time sketching outside, and his paintings reflect his rural surroundings.
His painting The End of the Hunt, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, won the Hearst Award when it was first exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1930s. Nichols was also honored by the United States Postal Service with a 1995 series of postcards reproducing his midwestern scenery.
