Jack Nichols (1921-2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal.
He worked for a time with Frederick Horsman Varley and Louis Muhlstock. For a few summers during the early 1940s, he worked as a deckhand on cargo boats plying the Great Lakes. In 1943, the National Gallery of Canada commissioned him to depict the activities of the Canadian Merchant Navy and he left on a mission to the Caribbean with Michael Forster.
He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in February 1944 and worked as an official war artist from April 1944 to August 1945.[1] Most of his works depict the landing operations at Normandy and destroyer movements off Brest.
He obtained a Guggenheim fellowship that allowed him to travel and paint in United States in 1947 and 1948.[1] He taught at the Vancouver School of Art in 1948. He won a prize at the Second International Exhibition of Drawing and Engraving in Lugano, Switzerland in 1952. His lithographs were exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1958. He lived in Toronto.
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