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Nicholson, Ben
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Nicholson, Ben, 1894–1982, English painter; son of Sir William Nicholson. Nicholson's geometric abstractions of landscapes and still lifes are discreetly colored and lyrically expressed. In works such as Relief (1939; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City) Nicholson developed the purism of de Stijl Stijl, de (də stīl) [Du.,=the style], Dutch nonfigurative art movement, also called neoplasticism.
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 with great elegance. His paintings are in many collections, including the museums of Minneapolis, Detroit, Philadelphia, New York City, and Washington, D.C. He was married to the painter Winifred Dacre and later to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth Hepworth, Dame Barbara, 1903–75, English sculptor. Hepworth's smooth, usually nonfigurative sculptures recall those of Jean Arp. Working in Cornwall, she consistently sought perfection of form and surface texture. She worked primarily in stone, in bronze.
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See his Drawings, Paintings and Reliefs, 1911–1968 (1969); study by C. Harrison (1969, repr. 1972).



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Inspired by the paintings of Modernist pioneer Ben Nicholson, the angular construction forms a neutral armature and backdrop for display, also framing views across to St Mary's churchyard through a huge vitrine on the street frontage.
Nevinson was present, along with Marlow Moss, an epigone of Mondrian, but Ben Nicholson was a glaring omission, Paris having partly provided the impetus for his mid-30s white reliefs.
North and south faces of the building are also symmetrical but on the south the pattern of delicate verticals, floating horizontals and projections is more abstract, reminiscent of a Ben Nicholson.
 
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