Thomas Willoughby Nason

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Thomas Willoughby Nason
© Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Thomas Willoughby Nason

American printmaker, 1889–1971
BiographyBorn in Massachusetts, Thomas Nason chronicled rural New England in his wood engravings. He attended Tufts University but was largely self-taught at as printmaker. His work began to attract attention when he won the best print awards in 1929 and 1930 from the Philadelphia Print Club. Nason was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in New York City; the Society of American Etchers; the Salmagundi Club in New York City; the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; the Chicago Society of Etchers; the Lyme Art Association in Lyme, Connecticut; the Philadelphia Society of Etchers; and an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design.
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