Nielsen Gallery is a commercial

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originally located on Newbury Street in the

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area of

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. Founded in 1963 by Nina Nielsen and John Baker, the gallery won “Best Show in a Commercial Gallery in the United States,” prizes from the International Association of Art Critics, in 2005 and 2009. Originally a frame shop that also sold

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ese prints, they began to exhibit paintings in 1973. During the 46 years that the gallery was open in its original building, and also in its current online and by-appointment incarnation, it has showcased and supported contemporary American artists, especially those creating experimental and avant-garde work. The gallery's spirit was described by ''Artdeal Magazine'' as "the warmest, most intense, most powerful and inspirational art experience north of Manhattan.” Artists featured through the gallery have included

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Joan Snyder Joan Snyder (born April 16, 1940) is an American Painting, painter from New York City, New York. She is a MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellow, and a National Endowment for the Arts, National End ...

, Dexter Lazenby, Nathalie Miebach, James Cambronne,

Albert York Albert York (1928–2009) was an American painter. He lived and worked in New York from 1952 until his death in 2009. He has been represented exclusively by Davis & Langdale Company, Inc. in New York since 1963. York painted the beauty he saw, on ...

Arthur Dove Arthur Garfield Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter.. Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinati ...

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, Jake Berthot, John Walker,

Bill Jensen Bill Jensen (born 1945) is an American abstract painter. Education Jensen was born in 1945 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at University of Minnesota, where he earned his BFA in 1968 and his MFA in 1970. He has lived and worked in New York ...

, Anne Harris,

Sedrick Huckaby Sedrick Ervin Huckaby (1975) is an American artist known for his use of thick, impasto paint to create murals that evoke traditional quilts and his production of large portraits that represent his personal history through images of family members ...

, Gregory Amenoff, and John Lees.M&L collaboration with Nina Nielsen and John Baker, Matter and Light, September 15, 2016, http://www.matterlightfineart.com/2016/09/15/ml-collaboration-with-nina-nielsen-and-john-baker/

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External links

Nielsen Gallery website
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