Practicing the conservation of paintings for the last 40 years, I find the book EVERYTHING BUT GRAY : The life of Audley Dean Nichols a great resource for treating the paintings by Nichols. Not only are the color illustrations spot on when viewing his original works, the research into some of his technique as well …
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I really love how the story of the life of the artist is woven together with the artwork itself. It's really well written and makes for an engaging history lesson and helped me really appreciate the art of the southwest, the details and colors and subject matter of the beautiful paintings. I will never look …
Audley Dean Nicols has been one of my favorites artists since I discovered his work over 25 years ago. Being the proud owner of 3 museum quality pieces by him, I have much to enjoy! His landscape realism is “best of class” in my opinion. Not until this wonderful book by Thomas Duke was published …
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I take my hat off to Thomas Duke and Gayle Boss for the beautifully written book about Audley Dean Nicols. Nicols will forever be the founding father of the El Paso School of the “Purple Mountain Painters”. His influence on Southwest artists is unprecedented. My friend, the late Early El Paso artist Eugene Thurston, always …
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This book is a great tribute to an under appreciated world class artist! Being from Texas we are very familiar with his paintings of the West Texas landscape and it is wonderful to have such quality images for all readers to enjoy. And now being able to see his work from other parts of the …
