Don Nice

American, 1932

Believing deeply in the interdependence of man and nature, Nice’s landscapes have become earthscapes, blending the natural and the manmade, abstraction and realism, painting and sculpture and movement. In painting what is in his heart, he gives us himself and what he sees, inviting us to give of ourselves in return. Joseph Conrad said that writing could provide “that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.” Don Nice’s vision, born in the American West, nurtured in Europe, and manifested in emblems of America and the water and skies and earth of the majestic Hudson River Valley, draws us into the universal by means of the particular, demanding our attention, and reinforcing our inextricable connections to the forces of nature and the nature of the universe.

Courtesy Don Nice