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Nan Greacen

Nan Faure Greacen (1908 - 1999) was active/lived in New York, Florida / France.  Nan Greacen is known for Impressionist painting, book illustration.

Born in Giverny, France where her father Edmund Greacen was an impressionist painter actively following Claude Monet, Nan Greacen became a noted oil painter and watercolorist.  She began earning awards from 1936, when she received the Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy of Design.  In the following years, her award medals were from the National Arts Club, Montclair Art Museum, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, Hudson Valley Art Association and Grumbacher Society.

She graduated from the Brearley School in New York City and then studied for four years at the Grand Central Art School, which her father had established in 1921.  Her instructors were Wayman Adams, Arshile Gorky, Jerry Farnsworth and her father. She taught drawing and still life at the school from 1931 to 1942, and from 1942 to 1968, gave private classes at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida where she had moved with her husband, Rene Bard Faure.

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