Jack Nichols was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1921. Working alongside F. H. Varley and Louis Muhlstock, Nichols went on to be an official war artist in the 1940s. From a Guggenheim fellowship, to his masterful lithographs being exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1958, Jack Nichols' achievements in Canadian Art are most notable.

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Circus Rider (1957) 19.5 x 24.5 mixed media

"If any of the younger Canadian painters possesses the impelling force of latent genius, it is Jack Nichols."

- Paul Duval

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Sombre Clown (1959) 23 x 18 mixed media on paper