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1915 Batavia, New York - 2013. Known for: Landscape w figure, animal, illustrator.
Biography provided courtesy of "California Watercolors 1850-1970" By Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last. VERNON NYE (b.1915-present). Born: Batavia, NY. Studied: Mechanics Institute (New York).... Read full biography
Biography provided courtesy of "California Watercolors 1850-1970" By Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last. VERNON NYE (b.1915-present). Born: Batavia, NY. Studied: Mechanics Institute (New York). Member: American Watercolor Society, Society of Western Artists. Vernon Nye was raised in New York... Read full biography
Biography provided courtesy of "California Watercolors 1850-1970" By Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last. VERNON NYE (b.1915-present). Born: Batavia, NY. Studied: Mechanics Institute (New York). Member: American Watercolor Society, Society of Western Artists. Vernon Nye was raised in New York State and studied art with Eliot O'Hara, Roy Mason, Ted Kautzky and Harry Anderson. After a successful career working as a book illustrator for the Review and Herald Publishing Association in Washington,... Read full biography
Biography provided courtesy of "California Watercolors 1850-1970" By Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last. VERNON NYE (b.1915-present). Born: Batavia, NY. Studied: Mechanics Institute (New York). Member: American Watercolor Society, Society of Western Artists. Vernon Nye was raised in New York State and studied art with Eliot O'Hara, Roy Mason, Ted Kautzky and Harry Anderson. After a successful career working as a book illustrator for the Review and Herald Publishing Association in Washington, D.C., he moved to Northern California. He became chairman of the art department at Pacific Union College and began teaching watercolor classes on the Mendocino Coast. He has primarily worked with transparent watercolors and occasionally adds opaque... Read full biography
Biography provided courtesy of "California Watercolors 1850-1970" By Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last. VERNON NYE (b.1915-present). Born: Batavia, NY. Studied: Mechanics Institute (New York). Member: American Watercolor Society, Society of Western Artists. Vernon Nye was raised in New York State and studied art with Eliot O'Hara, Roy Mason, Ted Kautzky and Harry Anderson. After a successful career working as a book illustrator for the Review and Herald Publishing Association in Washington, D.C., he moved to Northern California. He became chairman of the art department at Pacific Union College and began teaching watercolor classes on the Mendocino Coast. He has primarily worked with transparent watercolors and occasionally adds opaque colors. In many works, he feels the need for the image to tell a story, so figures are often... Read full biography
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Biography provided courtesy of "California Watercolors 1850-1970" By Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last.
VERNON NYE (b.1915-present)...Born: Batavia, NY.
Studied: Mechanics Institute (New York).
Member: American Watercolor Society, Society of Western Artists.
Vernon Nye was raised in New York State and studied art with Eliot O'Hara, Roy Mason, Ted Kautzky and Harry Anderson. After a successful career working as a book illustrator for the Review and Herald Publishing Association in Washington, D.C., he moved to Northern California. He became chairman of the art department at Pacific Union College and began teaching watercolor classes on the Mendocino Coast.
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