NEW YORK, NY.- Graham Nickson: Paintings 1972–2011—Paths of the Sun brings together three distinct but related bodies of work. The first, a group of early oils composed with frames hand painted by the artist, most created in the environs of Rome, was begun shortly after Nickson’s arrival there as a recipient of the 1972 Rome Prize. It was in Italy that sunrises and sunsets first became major themes in his work, and the small format landand skyscapes he painted, some of which are grouped as diptychs and triptychs, also were the basis of the predella paintings that are components of several of the artist’s monumental canvases of the period, including Umbra Urbana (1972–80) and Concordia (1972–78), both in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a 2006 interview, Nickson stated: It’s the image. Basically that’s the thing that keeps us going. And I think this is true of a lot of the people I admire, whether it’s Titian or