Nicolas Carone, Head in Profile, 1980, oil on canvas, 24" x 20"

Nicolas Carone

(1917-2010)

Nicolas Carone studied at the National Academy of Design, Art Students League, Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, and the Rome Academy of Fine Arts. He has won the Rome Prize, Fulbright Fellowship, William Copely Grant and the Childe Hassam Grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Carone has had solo exhibitions at Frumkin Gallery, Stable Gallery, and Staempfli Gallery, and has shown in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Rome, the Brussels World's Fair, the Venice Biennale, the Tate Gallery, and the Geitain Group in Japan. Mr. Carone has taught at universities including Yale, Columbia, Brandeis, and Cornell, and at Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, and Skowhegan School. He was a founding faculty member of the New York Studio School, where he taught for more than 20 years.

Selected Collections

Baltimore Museum of Art, MD

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC

Lowe Art Museum, FL

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY