| Donald Harry Nice | |
| Birth Date: | 1932 |
| Birth Place: | Visalia, California |
| Death Place: | Cortlandt, New York |
| Education: | University of Southern California, Yale School of Art |
| Field: | Painter, printmaker |
Don Nice (1932–2019) was an American painter, printmaker, and educator known for his pop realism.
Nice was born in Visalia, California in 1932.[1] He attended the University of Southern California and the Yale School of Art.[2] 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.[3]
Nice taught at the Minneapolis School of Art,[3] the School of Visual Arts, and went on to be the artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College.[2]
Nice's early paintings were in the Abstract Expressionist style. He abandoned Abstract Expressionism for Pop art.[4] His work was included in the 1968 Vassar College Art Gallery exhibition Realism Now.[5] His work was included in the Rubber Stamp Portfolio published in the late 1970s.[6] By the 1980s Nice was incorporating landscapes of the Hudson River Valley in his work.[3]
Nice died in 2019 in Cortlandt, New York.[1]
Nice's work in many collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[7] the Museum of Modern Art,[8] the National Gallery of Art,[9] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] the Whitney Museum of American Art.[10]