I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

In 1937 he was one of the editors of Circle an influential monograph on constructivism. Nicholson and Winifred had three children: a son Jake in June 1927; a daughter Kate (who later also became a painter) in July 1929; and a son Andrew in September 1931.

Benjamin Lauder "Ben" Nicholson OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was a British painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief) landscape and still-life.