Oil on canvas, signed with artist's initials at lower right, dated 6/15/78 to stretcher, retaining artist's label to verso, presented in the original weathered wooden frame.

Stretcher size 22 1/2 x 36 in.; Frame dimensions 28 1/4 x 42 1/2 in.

Living and painting in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, Ward Nichols' realistic paintings have been exhibited at the Huntington Museum of Art, Springfield Museum of Art in Massachusetts, the North Carolina Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Asheville Museum of Art, the Hickory Museum of Art and at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.

Very good estate condition.

$1,000 - 3,000