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Title
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Creator
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Nick Hyde
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Artist ID
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170
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Description
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White and gray swirls.
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Category of Media
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Painting/drawing/mixed media on paper
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Media
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silverpoint drawing on illustration board
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Accession Number
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2007.002
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Location
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Library Building, 3rd Floor, Advancement VP office
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Date Acquired
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2004
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Donor or Seller
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Goldberg, Fred
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Donor ID
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168
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Condition Statement
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2/2023: Good condition. No issues noted at this time.
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Artist Bio
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Nick Hyde (1943-2018) was an artistic genius. After graduating in 1963 from Sacred Heart in San Francisco he attended the Academy of Art until his induction into the Army in the spring of 1966. He was also a complicated man who painted his way through his stint at the Army. When he was not painting murals in the mess hall he was a Master at Arms in the army during the Vietnam war while serving in Germany.
His “visionary works” have been displayed in galleries and museums on both coasts, from the San Francisco Palace of the Legion of Honor to the Smithsonian Institute, as well as taking part of a U.S. State Department traveling art show to the Orient in 1978 (where his painting “BethAnn” was held hostage at the Tehran Airport).
He also had his art published on sci fi book covers, several magazine articles and one cover, and was included in the "Visionary Art" book, prefaced by the well known museum art curator Walter Hopps. Several paintings were in print in poster format and note-cards for years.
The late Walter Hopps, former Curator of 20th Century American Art, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution wrote:
“The powerful nature of Nick Hyde’s art stands in certain ways vividly apart from his visionary colleagues. Rather than scenes of cosmic calm, serene process, or peaceful resolution, Hyde pours forth effulgent compositions of both hallucinatory intensity and tumultuous activity. The myriad visual events and details brought forth in an all-at-once total vision in Hyde’s paintings give rise to a unique tension between what seems the most violent of struggles and the most delicate of dances. In maintaining qualities of such polarity Hyde reveals a mastery of a sinuous, insinuating line structure that both divulges and dissolves images.” -Visions, Pomegranate Publications, copyright 1977.
Source: https://www.lakeconews.com/index.php/news/community/obituaries/60059-nick-hyde
