Edgar Nye American Washington, D.C. Impressionist Modernist Oil Painting Signed, Titled "Fells Point", 28 x 33", 34 x 39" framed
Edgar Hewitt Nye was a painter and teacher who was born in 1879 in Richmond, Virginia, and died in 1943 in Washington, DC, where he lived most of his life, except for the years he spent in France and England between 1901 and 1914. He taught privately at his studio.He studied at the Corcoran School and with J.N. Barlow of England. He was a member of the Society of Washington Artists; Washington Watercolor Club; and the Washington Landscape Club. His works were included in exhibitions of the Society of Washington Artists; Corcoran Gallery Biennials, 1914 26 (4 times); Corcoran Gallery (solo, 1922); Washington Watercolor Club (winning prizes in 1926, 1927, 1933, 1937); Gr. Washington Independent Exhibition, 1935 (winning the purchase prize); the Society of Independent Artists; and the Washington Landscape Club.His works are included in the collections of the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington, DC; the Plymouth Gallery in England; the National Museum of American Art; Georgetown University; Corcoran Gallery of Art; University of Georgia Museum; and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. Edgar Hewitt Nye is listed in Who Was Who in American Art, and McMahan's Artists of Washington, DC.

28 x 33 in

10 lb