Nick Hyde
1943-
Nick Hyde is one of the prime movers in the California Visionary Art movement. The late Walter Hopps, former director at the Corcoran Gallery, and curator of American paintings at the Smithsonian's National Collection of Fine Arts, said of his work, "The powerful nature of Nick Hyde's art stands in certain important ways vividly apart from his visionary colleagues. Rather than scenes of cosmic calm, serene process, or peaceful resolution, Hyde put forth effulgent compositions of both hallucinatory intensity and tumultuous activity". (Visions, Pomegranate Publications, copyright 1977)
Nick Hyde's visionary works have been displayed at many museums including the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, and the Smithsonian Institute.
