Brown Button Estate Sales
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Collector's Auction: The Art & Pottery of Nick & Luella Vaccaro Online Estate Sale

Fri, Aug 29, 2025 05:00PM EDT - Sun, Aug 31, 2025 08:00PM EDT
Lot 102

Nick Vaccaro "#17 Color Filled", "#18 Writing and Painting", "#19 Color is Light", "#13 Hue and Me", "#112 Pictorial Terms", "#140 Clarity and Space",

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Nick Vaccaro

(Kansas, 1931-2002)

“#17 Color Filled”, “#18 Writing and Painting”, “#19 Color is Light”, “#13 Hue and Me”, “#112 Pictorial Terms”, “#140 Clarity and Space”, “#114 Overlapping Lines”, “#108 Writing on the Wall” & “#110 Draw the Line”

Pastel on board and paper

All are 28” x 22” 

Nick Vaccaro was a professor and chairman of the drawing and painting department at the University of Kansas. As an artist, Vaccaro was the recipient of purchase awards from the San Francisco Museum of Art (1958), the Dallas Museum of Fine Art (1961), and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and his work has additionally been exhibited in the Nelson Gallery of Art, Oklahoma Arts Center, Wichita Art Museum, and Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts.

Condition

Fair condition with some pastel transfer due to previous storage methods. Push pin holes evident. See photos for more details. 

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Item pickup is Wednesday, September 3rd from 11am-1pm in Kansas City, MO. Winning bidders will need to sign up for a pickup appointment time. Winning bidders will receive the full address on their invoice. Brown Button contracts with a third party mover to provide a delivery option for our bidders. Delivery is available within 25 miles of the sale location. Bidders will need to submit a delivery request form using the delivery link emailed with their invoice.