About Roy Nuse

  • Biography

    The following is from Robin Nuse, granddaughter of Roy Nuse. The information is adapted from Roy C. Nuse: A Biographical Sketch by Ellen Slack, also a granddaughter of the artist.

    Roy C. Nuse was a respected teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1925 to 1954. He lived and painted in Bucks County, Pennsylvania for almost 60 years, working in a plein-air, impressionist style. He, with his artist wife, Ellen Guthrie Nuse, had six children that were often the subjects of some of his best paintings, especially in outdoor, rural, farm settings. He painted landscapes, figures in the landscape, still lifes and portraits in primarily in oils, but also worked in pastel.

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