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Nicholas A. Price

American artist

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ19663676
Source-derived summary

'Nicholas A. Price is an American visual artist who specializes in fine art film, photography, sculpture and public art.

Price also writes poetry, children's short stories and adult fiction stories in the genres of crime thrillers and comedy.

"Cleared Hot"

In 2009, the Library of Congress acquired "Cleared Hot", 60 large-format, black-and-white photographs of men and women in the U.S. Air Force, to fill a gap in the Library's visual collections related to the history of military aviation. The photos are available for viewing by researchers in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division."The 60 photographs create a valuable visual story for understanding the hard work and deep commitment of today’s military," said Helena Zinkham, acting chief of the Prints and Photographs Division. "This compelling photographic essay, created to honor the men and women of the Air Force, enriches the Library’s collections by providing a contemporary counterpart to our historic resources."

Fine Art Film Photography

Fine Art Photography Commissions

Cleared Hot

Playground of The Gods

Trick Trunk

Partnerships With Nature

Dam Perspective (Hoover Dam)

Dance In Focus/Anatomy of A Ballet

Signs of Americana

Portraits of America

Books for children

(2017) Timed to Perfection. New York: Demy Books. ISBN 9781946522108.

(2017) The Lazy Hour. New York: Demy Books. ISBN 9781946522122.

Editorial summary

“Nicholas A. Price” enters the record as american artist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nicholas, Price and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-10-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nicholas, Price and American.
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Why this record matters

“Nicholas A. Price” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nicholas, Price and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19663676. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2017.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Nicholas A. Price” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.