TitleRising Star
Artist
Spencer Baird Nichols
(1875-1950)
Date1933
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 40 1/2 in.
Framed: 42 × 51 3/4 × 2 1/8 in.
SignedSigned lower left: "Spencer Nicholas/1933"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, February 20, 1934
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number937-P
Label TextAccording to the artist's son, this painting was executed for the Academy shortly after the Nichols family home and the artist's studio in Kent, Connecticut, were destroyed by fire. All of Nichols' paintings in the house and studio were lost. The figures in the painting represent the artist and his wife.
