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Nelson C. White
Lyme Art Colony
American, (August 1900–1989) In Lyme: c. 1930
Nelson Cooke White (1900-1989) was born in Waterford, Connecticut in June of 1900. He was the son of Henry C. White and Grace Holbrook White. He lived in Hartford until 1913 at which time the family made Waterford their permanent residence. In 1919 he graduated from the Pomfret School.

His parents brought him to Old Lyme at the age of three where he was the only child to spend time with the members of the art colony at the Florence Griswold House.

He first studied art under his father and then from 1919 through 1923 at the National Academy of Design in New York. He also attended Yale University for one year. He was an active member of the Lyme Art Association. His paintings show a love of landscape and marine subjects of the Connecticut shoreline, his native town of Waterford, and of eastern Long Island.

He married Aida Rovetti in 1929. He was the author of biographies on the American artist J. Frank Currier and the American artist Abbott H. Thayer.

In 1930 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Milch Galleries in New York City. He also spent much time serving in organizations devoted to advancement of the arts.

He continued to paint until shortly before his death in 1989.