Thomas A. Nicholas was born in Middletown, CT in 1934; he is the son of a Greek restaurant owner and cook. He studied with Ernst Lohrman and illustrator Harold Fisk, while attending the School of Visual Arts in New York City on scholarship from 1953 to 1956. In 1961 he received an invitational Greenshields Memorial Foundation Grant to study in Europe for two years. Painting professionally for nearly half a century, Tom has attained an esteemed position as one of the country's most widely recognized landscape painters. In the years since those trips, he has painted on location in many of the world's most magnificent settings including, of course, the coast of Maine. His paintings are noted for their elegant composition, fine detail, and romantic sensibility.
One of the youngest members ever elected to the National Academy of Design, Tom has been honored with nearly 200 awards and 40 one-man shows throughout the country. Besides being a member of the Guild of Boston Artists, he is a Dolphin Fellow of the American Watercolor Society, a member of the Knickerbocker Artists, and Allied Artists of America. A bibliography of critical studies of his work includes articles in the American Artist, Today's Art, Western Art Digest, Southwest Art and The Artists - England and America.