Dale William Nichols (1904–1995), Big City News, 1935. Oil on canvas, 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm) The Marty O’Brien Collection of American Art provided courtesy of the O’Brien Art Foundation. © Estate of Dale Nichols.
WILMINGTON, DE.- For the nation’s 250th, the Delaware Art Museum is building a living artistic record—honoring Delaware’s past and empowering future generations to tell its story through art.
“Citizen Artist is a love letter to artists.” With this guiding sentiment from exhibition co-curators, DelArt’s Head Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art, Margaret Winslow, and Lynn Herrick Sharp Curatorial Fellow, Dorothy Fisher, the Delaware Art Museum (DelArt) opens Citizen Artist, a sweeping and timely exhibition celebrating the enduring role of artists as essential workers—those who document, interpret, and shape the American experience…