Nicolas Carone (1917-2010) belonged to the first generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. He was a painter known for his gestural action paintings and loose, painterly style. He was born to Italian immigrants in Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1917, the eldest of seven children. After high school, he studied at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design and with Hans Hofmann before serving in World War II. In 1951 he returned to New York City from Rome, exhibiting his paintings in the now famed “Ninth Street Show”.Along with other first generation abstract expressionists, he also showed his work at the Stable Gallery. Carone was a friend and colleague of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Lee Krasner. In the early 1950s, he moved to the Springs in Long Island and with the help of his close friend Jackson Pollock, he found a house near the other artists. Carone's work is in the collections of museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Baltimore Museum of Art, among others.