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Willard Nash

Willard Nash was an American artist best known for being a member of Los Cinco Pintores.

Willard Ayer Nash ( in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – in Albuquerque) grew up in Detroit, Michigan. In Detroit he studied art with John P. Wicker and became successful as a commercial artist. He was also an amateur boxer, soprano and actor.[1] He moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in and became friends with the other modernist artists in the area. He found work with the Works Progress Administration, completing six panels in to be hung in the University of New Mexico's main library.[2] In addition to painting he made a number of lithographs he printed himself.[3] He moved to California in , teaching in San Francisco and Los Angeles. His work is in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, University of New Mexico Art Museum and New Mexico Museum of Art.[4]

He contributed to, and lived in, the Camino del Monte Sol Historic District in Santa Fe, New Mexico, living at Camino del Monte Sol.[5]

References

  1. ^Hughes, Edan Milton (). Artists in California . San Francisco: Hughes Publishing. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  2. ^Bellmore, Audra; Bordeianu, Sever (Spring ). "Youth, Science, and the Future: Three Sets of New Deal Era Murals at the University of New Mexico". Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America. 32 (1): 71– doi/ JSTOR&#;/
  3. ^Adams, Clinton (). Printmaking in New Mexico . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  4. ^Falk, Peter (). Who Was Who in American Art &#;: Years of Artists in America. Madison, CT: Sound View Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  5. ^Corinne P. Sze (February 12, ). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Camino del Monte Sol Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved July 8, With accompanying 30 photos