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Gertrude Nason
Lyme Art Colony
(1890–1965)
In Lyme: 1923-1965
Gertrude Nason was born in Billerica, Massachusetts in 1890. She graduated from Howe High School in 1905 and then entered the Massachusetts Normal Art School where she studied under Vesper L. George. She then studied under Joseph DeCamp from 1908-11.
She enrolled in the Boston Museum School and studied figure painting from Edmund Tarbell. She had her own art studio at 100 Fenway Studios in Boston. Nason also held the position of Supervisor of Art for the Billerica and Burlington public school systems until 1929.
Nason began spending her summers in Lyme, Connecticut in 1923. She married in 1929 and moved to New York City.
She was a member of the Copley Society, Pen and Brush Club of New York, North Shore Art Association, Lyme Art Association, National Association of Women Artists, New York Society of Women Artists, and the Brooklyn Society of American Art.
Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Boston Public Library.
Gertrude Nason died in 1965 and was buried in Lyme, Connecticut.