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Willard Ayer Nash (1898-1943)
 “Buckman Hill”
11" x 14" Oil
Nash was born in Philadelphia, PA on March 29, 1898. He studied art with John P. Wicker in Detroit. He moved to Santa Fe at the age of 22. In the Fall of 1921 Nash, with his fellow Santa Fe painters Jozef Bakos, Fremont Ellis, Will Shuster and Walter Mruk created “Los Cinco Pintores”. Nash's brief and promising career was ended by tuberculosis at the age of 44. Known as the "American Cezanne," Nash was honored by Diego Rivera as "one of the six greatest living American painters." Nash said, " I always considered myself a Santa Fean, and my deepest hope is to some day pick up where I left off." In 1936, Nash moved to California. He taught at Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs, at San Francisco Art School, and at the Art Center School in Los Angeles. He died in Albuquerque on Sept. 3, 1942. Willard Nash Highest Auction Prices "Santa Fe Landscape" Price: $140,400 "View of Santa Fe" (Landscape) Price: $137,000 "Self Portrait with Pipe" Price: $35,000 "View of Ranchos and Leg Study" Price: $35,000 "Northern New Mexico Village" Price: $33,000 "Santa Fe Landscape" Price: $32,500 "Penitente Procession" 1929 Price: $30,260 "Still Life with Guitar" Price: $27,500 "LANDSCAPE-CERILLOS" Price: $25,000 "Santa Fe Vista" Price: $23,900 Willard Ayer Nash Exhibitions: American Artists Congress, 1936, 1940 Courvoisier Gallery (SF), 1933 Los Angeles Art Association, 1934, 1941 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1928, 1938 Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1938 Rose Gallery (LA), 1937 San Francisco Art Association, 1931, 1939 Society of Independent Artists Willard Nash Museum Collections: Anschutz Collection Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Dallas Museum of Art Denver Museum Jonson Gallery of University of New Mexico Los Angeles County Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art, New York New Mexico Museum of Art Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum Stark Museum of Art The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Whitney Museum of American Art    131 BENT STREET • TAOS, NEW MEXICO 87571
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