Large 61 X 108 wideby International artist JOEP NICHOLAS 1897-1972, Born Dutch from French origin.

Joep Nicolas (also spelled Joseph Nicholas) was born in Roermond (Limburg) in a French family whose stained glass atelier dated to his grandfather in 1855. He married Belgian sculptor Suzanne Nijs on April 26, 1924, in Belgium. In 1935, Nicolas applied for a patent for a glazing technique he described as vermurail.

Although frequently described as a refugee from the Nazi invasion of Holland, he arrived in the United States on December 30, 1939, with German ballet dancer Kurt Jooss (1901–1979), five months before the German invasion. He designed the December 1940 cover of Fortune Magazine.

Nicolas received grand prix awards for stained glass at Paris (1925), Milan (1933), and Brussels (1935), and he was a member of the art jury at the 1937 Paris World's Fair. He was associated with Rambusch Studios in New York City, and had his own office at 15 West 67th Street (now the Central Park Studios). Nicolas lived in Islip, New York.