GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A native of Dallas, Perry Nichols was born on November 9, 1911. While at Bryan Street High School, he met William Lester who would also become a well-known Texas artist. Nichols studied with Alexandre Hogue, Frank Klepper, and Frank Reaugh at various intervals after his graduation from high school. After graduating from high school in 1929, Nichols joined the United States Army, but after a year he left the army to focus on his artwork.
In 1931 Nichols was given his first one-man show at the Joseph Sartor Galleries. He attended the meetings of the Dallas Artists League, participating in their many activities. In 1934 he worked for the Public Works of Art Project in the city and began a lifelong interest in mural painting. He executed murals in Dallas at the Dallas Morning News building, the Sears, Roebuck store on Ross Avenue, the Lone Star Gas Company building, and other locations. Around the time of the Texas Centennial, he began designing and making furniture, which he continued to do off and on for years.
Nichols, an accomplished printmaker, founded the Lone Star Printmakers along with several fellow Texas artists. He exhibited at the New York World's Fair in 1939 and won several Dallas Allied Arts prizes in the following years, most notably for his tempera, West Texas Snow, now in the Dallas Museum of Art collection. In 1942 he created a mural series on Texas wildlife in the Baker Hotel. Nichols served as head of the art department of Hockaday School in Dallas from 1945 to 1948. Returning his focus to creating art, Nichols opened a gallery near Dallas in 1950. This gallery was located in an old church, earning Nichols the nickname “Reverend Nichols.” He actively created and exhibited his work throughout the next few decades. Nichols died on October 30, 1992 in Dallas, TX.
Adapted from
- Stewart, Rick. Lone Star Regionalism, The Dallas Nine and Their Circle, p.182-183.
- Perry B. Nichols Collection, Bywaters Special Collections, Hamon Arts Library, Southern Methodist Univerisity.
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General Description
A native of Dallas, Perry Nichols was born on November 9, 1911. While at Bryan Street High School, he met William Lester who would also become a well-known Texas artist. Nichols studied with Alexandre Hogue, Frank Klepper, and Frank Reaugh at various intervals after his graduation from high school. After graduating from high school in 1929, Nichols joined the United States Army, but after a year he left the army to focus on his artwork.
In 1931 Nichols was given his first one-man show at the Joseph Sartor Galleries. He attended the meetings of the Dallas Artists League, participating in their many activities. In 1934 he worked for the Public Works of Art Project in the city and began a lifelong interest in mural painting. He executed murals in Dallas at the Dallas Morning News building, the Sears, Roebuck store on Ross Avenue, the Lone Star Gas Company building, and other locations. Around the time of the Texas Centennial, he began designing and making furniture, which he continued to do off and on for years.
Nichols, an accomplished printmaker, founded the Lone Star Printmakers along with several fellow Texas artists. He exhibited at the New York World's Fair in 1939 and won several Dallas Allied Arts prizes in the following years, most notably for his tempera, West Texas Snow, now in the Dallas Museum of Art collection. In 1942 he created a mural series on Texas wildlife in the Baker Hotel. Nichols served as head of the art department of Hockaday School in Dallas from 1945 to 1948. Returning his focus to creating art, Nichols opened a gallery near Dallas in 1950. This gallery was located in an old church, earning Nichols the nickname “Reverend Nichols.” He actively created and exhibited his work throughout the next few decades. Nichols died on October 30, 1992 in Dallas, TX.
Adapted from
- Stewart, Rick. Lone Star Regionalism, The Dallas Nine and Their Circle, p.182-183.
- Perry B. Nichols Collection, Bywaters Special Collections, Hamon Arts Library, Southern Methodist Univerisity.
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