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Spencer Baird Nichols

Spencer Baird Nichols (1875 - 1950) was active/lived in Connecticut, District Of Columbia.  Spencer Nichols is known for Landscape, portrait, mural, illustration.

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Spencer Baird Nichols' childhood was spent in Washington, D.C. where he attended the Corcoran School of Art and the Washington Art Students' League.  At the Corcoran he studied under Howard Helmick, a student of James McNeill Whistler.  At the age of 17, he was appointed an Instructor of Illustration at the Art Students' League.

His father, Henry Hobart Nichols, was an eminent wood engraver who won a gold medal at the 1876 Centennial Exhibit in Philadelphia.

Spencer worked for the Geological Survey and the National Museum.  A portrait of Andrew Stephenson, Speaker of the House, by him, hangs in the Speaker's Lobby of the House of Representatives.

For a number of years until World War I, he was Chief Designer of the Louis Comfort Tiffany studios, designing mosaics*, windows and interiors, as well as painting murals for the firm, all under the signature of Tiffany.  He did murals for the WPA* in the Kent, Litchfield and New Milfor   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2277 characters.]  Artist bio

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