{{short description|American artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = Donald Harry Nice | image = Don Nice in his studio at 463 Broome Street in NYC in 1964 with his painting Strawberry.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Nice in his NYC studio in 1964 with his painting Strawberry | birth_name = | other_names = | birth_date = {{Birth date text|1932}} | birth_place = Visalia, California | death_date = {{Death year and age|2019|1932}} | death_place = Cortlandt, New York | education = University of Southern California, Yale School of Art | field = Painter, printmaker | training = | movement = Pop art | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = | partner = | website = {{URL|donnice.com}} }}
'''Don Nice''' (1932–2019) was an American painter, printmaker, and educator known for his pop realism.
==Biography== Nice was born in Visalia, California in 1932.<ref name="Smithsonian American Art Museum">{{cite web |title=Don Nice |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/don-nice-6142 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=4 July 2023}}</ref> He attended the University of Southern California and the Yale School of Art.<ref name="U.S. Department of State">{{cite web |title=Don Nice |url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/don_nice/ |website=U.S. Department of State |access-date=4 July 2023}}</ref> Nice served in the United States Army from 1955 through 1957. After leaving the army he spent several year in Europe. In 1959 he married Sandra Kay Smith.<ref name="The New York Times">{{cite web |last1=Genzlinger |first1=Neil |title=Don Nice, Painter of Pop Art and River Scenes, Dies at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/obituaries/don-nice-dead.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=4 July 2023 |date=7 March 2019}}</ref>
Nice taught at the Minneapolis School of Art,<ref name="The New York Times"/> the School of Visual Arts, and went on to be the artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College.<ref name="U.S. Department of State"/>
Nice's early paintings were in the Abstract Expressionist style. He abandoned Abstract Expressionism for Pop art.<ref name="Chronogram Magazine">{{cite web |last1=Doyon |first1=Marie |title=Remembering Hudson Valley Artist Don Nice |url=https://www.chronogram.com/arts/remembering-hudson-valley-artist-don-nice-7932067 |website=Chronogram Magazine |access-date=4 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> His work was included in the 1968 Vassar College Art Gallery exhibition ''Realism Now''.<ref name="Vassar Newspaper & Magazine Archive">{{cite web |title=Art Gallery Exhibit 'Dazzles', Realism 'Larger-Than-Life',Vassar Miscellany News 8 May 1968 |url=https://newspaperarchives.vassar.edu/?a=d&d=miscellany19680508-01.2.18&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------- |website=Vassar Newspaper & Magazine Archive |access-date=4 July 2023}}</ref> His work was included in the ''Rubber Stamp Portfolio'' published in the late 1970s.<ref name="Princeton University Art Museum">{{cite web |title=Don Nice |url=https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/makers/4009 |website=Princeton University Art Museum |access-date=4 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> By the 1980s Nice was incorporating landscapes of the Hudson River Valley in his work.<ref name="The New York Times"/>
Nice died in 2019 in Cortlandt, New York.<ref name="Smithsonian American Art Museum"/>
==Work== Nice's work in many collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art,<ref name="Metropolitan Museum of Art">{{cite web |title=Don Nice {{!}} Wolf, Western Series, American Predella #5 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/486180 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=4 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> the Museum of Modern Art,<ref name="MoMA">{{cite web |title=Don Nice |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/4290 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |access-date=4 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> the National Gallery of Art,<ref name="nga">{{cite web |title=Donald Harry Nice |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.31397.html |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=4 July 2023}}</ref> the Smithsonian American Art Museum,<ref name="Smithsonian American Art Museum"/> the Whitney Museum of American Art.<ref name="whitney">{{cite web |title=Don Nice |url=https://whitney.org/artists/947 |website=Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date=4 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://paceprints.com/don-nice imaged of Nice's work] at Pace Prints
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nice, Don}} Category:1932 births Category:2019 deaths Category:American pop artists Category:20th-century American painters Category:20th-century American printmakers Category:Artists from Visalia, California