Born: April 1, 1942; Chicago, IL
Resides: Sarasota, FL
Education: 1968-69 Slade School of Art, University College, London, England; postgraduate work
1968 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; M.F.A.
1968 Slade School of Art, University College, London, England; Fulbright-Hayes Scholar
1966 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; B.F.A.
1961-66 University of Chicago (in conjunction with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions:
2012 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
2012 Butler Museum Of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
2010 Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
2010 Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2009 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
2008 Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2006 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2005 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2001 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2000 Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL
2000 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1998 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1997 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1994 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1991 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1991 Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1989 Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1989 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1986 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1985 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1983 O.K. Harris works of Art, New York, NY
1981 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1979 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1977 James Yu Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
1975 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Group Exhibitions
2012 Kunstsammlungen Museum, Chemitz, Germany . Exhibition from a Private German collection of landscape Painting from the 17th - 21st Century The collection of 250 works includes artists from all over the world
2012 Charles Allis Museum, Milwaukee, WI.
2012 OK Harris Works Of Art, NY.,NY.
2011 Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
2009 Summer in Wisconsin, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2009 Group Summer Exhibition, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2007-2009 Participating in Art In Embassy Program, United States State Department, Prague, Czechoslovakia
2006 Group Landscape Exhibition, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
2003-04 Everything OK at OK Harris, Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL
2002 Contemporary American Landscapes, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2001-02 Rain Forest: Contemporary Paintings by International Artists, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Taipei Gallery, New York, NY; Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
2001 National Vistas: An Invitational Landscape Exhibition, Arts Midland, Midland, MI
2001 Reflections of the Heartland: Landscape Paintings, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2001 Contemporary American Realism III, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
1999 Green Woods & Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; travelling to: Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA; John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art,
Sarasota, FL
1999 Harmon Meeks Gallery, Naples, FL
1998 Contemporary American Landscapes, M.A. Doren Gallery, Tulsa, OK
1997 Christine Adapon Fine Art, Manila, Philippines
1997 Forces of Nature, Taipei Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Landscape In Focus, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1994 Collectors' Choice, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
1994 Contemporary American Realism, Broden Gallery, Madison, WI
1994 Young Guns: East Coast Artists, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
1993 Nature's Territories /Landscape Paintings, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1992 What's New, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1992 A View From Here: Heartland Landscape Painters, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
1990 Contemporary Landscapes, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 100 Years of Wisconsin Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee,WI
1988 After The Drought, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1988 Contemporary Realism, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1988 Consonance, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC
1988 Tortue is O.K., Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors: The Glenn C. Janss Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
1988 Realisms, Fine Arts Galleries, UNM Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
1987 The Hot Centre: Contemporary Art Selected By Ivan Karp, Norton Center for the Arts,
Centre College, Danville, KY
1987 Fifty-First National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Op
1987 Director's Choice, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
1987 Lower Manhattan Revisited: SoHo NoHo. and Tribeca, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, VA
1887 Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Desind, The Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, OH
1985-87 American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss
Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; travelling exhibition
1985 Realism: Contemporary Americans, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
1985 Midwest Realists, Paine Art Center & Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI
1985 Artists of O.K. Harris, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1985 Focus on Realism: Selections from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID
1984-85 New Realism, Robert I. Kidd Galleries, Birmingham, MI
1984 Wisconsin Directions 4, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
1984 American Landscape Painting, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Aspects of Contemporary American Realism, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1984 Summer Remembered, E.R. Squibb & Sons, Princeton, NJ
1982 Royal Palm Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1983 Landscape, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ
1982 Watercolor U.S.A., Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1982 Painterly Realism, Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, WI
1981-82 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA; travelling to: Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal; Salas de
Exposciones, Madrid, Spain; Kunsthalle, Nurenberg, West Germany
1981 Contemporary American Landscapes, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH
1980 An American Flower Show, Heritage Plantation, Sandwich, MA
1980 Watercolors:1980, Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1979 Photo Realism, Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1977 James Yu Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Three Man Show, Hyde Park Center, Chicago, IL
1974 Deson Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1974 Midwest Invitational Painting Show, Chicago, IL
Bibliography: Books/Catalogues
LANDSCHAFT ALS WELTSICHT 2010 CATALOG OF A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING THAT TRAVELED TO FOUR MAJOR GERMAN MUSEUMS UNTIL JUNE 2012 THE EXHIBITION INCLUDED WORK FROM THE 16TH TO THE 21ST CENTURY AND COMPRISED 351 PAGES
WILLIAM NICHOLS RECENT LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown Ohio, 2012
New York, Of Course, Ralph Hermanns, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007
Rain Forest: Contemporary Paintings by International Artists, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Taipei Gallery, New York, NY; Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV; Foreword: Tchen, Yu-chiou, 2001.
Green Woods & Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; John Arthur, 1999.
The Artist and the American Landscape, Text: John Driscoll, Picture Editor: Arnold Skolnick, First Glance Books, Cobb, CA, 1998.
Forces Of Nature, Taipei Gallery, New York, NY; Introduction:Ronny Cohen, 1997
A View From Here: Heartland Landscape Painters, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL;
Curator's Statement: Harold Gregor, 1992.
Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting and The American Tradition, John Arthur, 1989.
Realisms, Fine Arts Galleries, UWM Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI;
Introduction: John N. Colt, 1988.
Fifty-First National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Op, 1987
Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Desind, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Introduction: Louis Zona, 1987.
American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Text: Alvin Martin; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Harry N. Abrams Publishers, New York, 1985.
American Landscape Painting, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA;
Essay: Mac McCloud, 1984.
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Frank Goodyear, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1981.
An American Flower Show, J. Frederick Cain, Heritage Plantation, Sandwich, MA, 1980.
Watercolors 1980, Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL; 1980.
Bibliography: Periodicals
Milwaukee Magazine, “Magnificent Obsession”, January 2006
American Arts Quarterly, “Exhibition Review”, Summer 2005
Arts Magazine, "William A. Nichols", Catherine Lamagna, September 1979.
Art International, "Reviews", Carter Ratcliff, May/June 1977.
Bibliography: Newspapers
The Capital Times, (Madison, WI), "This art's for real, and easy for the eye", Kevin Lynch, April 28, 1994.
The News and Daily Advance, (Lynchburg, VA) "Contemporary art focus of R-MWC's annual show",
March 15, 1987.
Detroit News, "New Realism wins with it's eye appeal", Joy Halkanson Colby, December 23, 1984, p.4E.
Art/World, "SoHo and The Realist Revolution", Nike Hale, May/June 18, 1979.
SoHo Weekly News, "Reviews", John Perreault, September 25, 1975.
Selected Collections:
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota FL.
Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
Rahr West Museum, Manitowoc, WI
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY
Chase Manhattan Corporation, New York, NY
Amerada Hess Corporation, Woodbridge, NJ
Enpro International, New York, NY
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Security Pacific National Bank, Irwin, CA
Fukuoka Sogo Bank, Ltd., Fukuoka, Japan and New York, NY
Arbor Drugs, Troy, MI
E. Jean Belloni, Geneva, Switzerland
Alfred Taubman, Troy, MI
Saul Steinberg, New York, NY
Glenn Janss, Sun Valley, ID
