James Craig Nicoll Bass Rocks Near Gloucester Massachusetts - 18" x 27" Premium Canvas Print
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James Craig Nicoll was an American marine painter and etcher. He was among the earliest etchers in New York.
Background
James Craig Nicoll was born on November 22, 1847 in New York City, New York, United States. He was the son of John Williams and Elizabeth Phillips (Craig) Nicoll and a descendant of John Nicoll, a Scotchman who emigrated to America in 1711.
Education
Nicoll attended the Quackenbos School there, then worked for two years in the studio of M. F. H. de Haas, the marine painter, who was his adviser and critic rather than his master, for Nicoll always insisted that he was not the pupil of any man or any school.
Career
Nicoll went out into the country frequently on sketching trips, with De Haas and with Kruseman van Elten. Very soon he began to specialize in marine and coast subjects, and from 1868, when he began to exhibit at the National Academy of Design, he was incessantly busy painting his favorite subjects all the way along the Atlantic coast from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the tip of Florida. His ability to suggest the appearance of water in motion, the sine qua non of a marine painter, was beyond all question; his waves are surely rolling; but in respect of color his pictures are not especially noteworthy. There is, at times, a certain brilliance, but depth is lacking. Textures are skilfully indicated, as in pictures of the sea, rocks, sand, and sky; this is especially true of his watercolors, which were perhaps better known and more popular than his oil paintings.
Nicoll was a man of executive ability. For nine years (1870 - 79) he served as secretary of the American Water Color Society, of which he was the founder; and later (1904 - 10) he was its president. For some years he was secretary of the National Academy of Design, of which he was elected a member in 1885. He was active in the affairs of at least a half-dozen other artistic organizations in New York. He acted as secretary of the Etching Club for several years, and was president of the Artists' Fund Society in 1887. He was also secretary of the international jury of awards for paintings at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago.