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Nan Sheets

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Nan Jane Sheets (1885 - 1976) was active/lived in Oklahoma, Illinois.  Nan Sheets is known for Landscape, printmaker, marine.

Painter-printmaker Nan Jane Sheets was born in Albany, Illinois in 1885. She took a degree in pharmacy from Valparaiso University, Indiana, and worked in that field for a short period in Salt Lake City, Utah. There she took classes in art and realized that her great love was that activity. She married Fred Sheets and moved to Bartlesville, Oklahoma and then to Oklahoma City in 1914.

By 1910, she was a serious painter, but it was during the 1920s that she matured as a fine artist. She spent summers of 1919 to 1923 studying art at the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs, and in 1923 went to Taos, New Mexico with Nellie Knopf and to Gloucester, Massachusetts with Hugh Breckenridge. she also painted in Maine, Woodstock, New York, and Nova Scotia and took several trips to Europe.

Many of her paintings were mountain landscapes or had western themes and focused on history such as the settlement of Oklahoma. In addition to painting, she did much teaching of art, and she fou   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1807 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Nan Sheets


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art MediaArt Subject
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Gardens, Garden Scenes
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • National Parks and/or State Parks
  • Still Life
  • Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Cape Ann, Massachusetts: Gloucester, Rockport, North Shore
  • Glacier National Park
  • New Mexico Before 1940
  • Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
  • Woodstock, New York
Art Association
  • American Federation of Arts
  • National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
  • National Associaton of Women Painters & Sculptors
  • North Shore Art Association, Gloucester-
  • Southern States Art League
Art Teacher
  • Birger Sandzen
  • Hugh Breckenridge
  • John Fabian Carlson
  • Robert Reid
Art School
  • Broadmoor Art Academy, Colorado Springs, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • MacDowell Art Colony Fellowship, Resident
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Southern States Art League Annual
Exhibition of Art Association
  • National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors)
  • North Shore Art Association, Gloucester
Exhibition of Museum
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art

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