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Kimon Nicolaїdes (10 June – 18 July ), was an American artist, educator, and author.!
Kimon Nicolaïdes
American artist, educator and author
Kimon Nicolaїdes | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1891-06-10)June 10, 1891 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | July 18, 1938(1938-07-18) (aged 47) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Kimon Nicolaides |
| Education | Art Students League of New York |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, educator, author, camouflage artist |
| Children | 3 |
Kimon Nicolaїdes (June 10, 1891 – July 18, 1938), was an American artist, educator, and author.[1][2] During World War I, he served in the United States Army in France as a camouflage artist.
Mamie Harmon was a student of Kimon Nicolaïdes () at the Art Students League and studied with him in the summers in New Hampshire, and
He taught at the Art Students League of New York after the war. Nicolaїdes' book The Natural Way to Draw (1941) provided a new method of teaching drawing, and was widely used.
Early life
Nicolaïdes was born in Washington, D.C., where his Greek-born father worked as an importer of Asian artifacts and his mother’s American ancestors date back to the Colonial period.
He was the third of