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| MARY SPENCER NAY. "Dune Country." Oil, rice paper, gold leaf and silver leaf on canvas, 26" x 48", monogrammed within the composition lower right, signed, titled and dated ("1961") on the stretcher. Some foxing to the handmade Japanese paper. In the original 4"-wide attractive wood frame. Provenance: estate of Constance Clark Willis, Nay's colleague at the Louisville Art Center Association School. "Dune Country" was one of 24 paintings in Nay's November 1961 Louisville Art Center Association exhibition. The "Louisville Times" review of the exhibition (Nov.3, 1961) includes a photograph of "Dune Country," the artist standing alongside it. The reviewer noted that "Most of these works have been done in the last two summers at Provincetown, Mass." Mary Spencer Nay, born 1913 in Crestwood, KY. Studied: Fayette Barnum (1925); Art Center Assn. School, Louisville (ca.1931-ca.1936); University of Louisville (B.A., 1942; M.A. under the direction of Ulfert Wilke); Florence Cane School, New York; Art Students League (with Yasuo Kuniyoshi, George Grosz and Will Barnet); Cincinnati Art Academy (lithography); Provincetown (summers, with Boris Margo); International School of Art, Mexico City (1946, with Carlos Merida). One-Person Exhibitions (partial list): J.B. Speed Art Museum (1939); Paducah Junior College (1940); University of Louisville (1946, 1950); Art Center Gallery, Louisville (1953); University of Kentucky (1955); Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV (1957); Morehead State Teachers College (1963); Ruth White Gallery, New York (1963); Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences (1964); Merida Gallery, Louisville (1966); Seaton House, Jeffersontown, KY (1971); Frame House Gallery, Louisville (1971); Thor Gallery, Louisville (1974); J.B. Speed Art Museum (1976). Group Exhibitions (partial list): Third Annual National Exhibition of American Art, Fine Arts Society, New York (1938); Gallery of American Art Today, New York World's Fair (1939); Artists for Victory, Metropolitan Museum of Art (1939); Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (1940); First International Exhibition of Contemporary Color Lithography, Cincinnati Art Museum (1950); 60th Annual Exhibition of American Painting, Chicago Art Institute (1951); Annual Minneapolis Print Show (1952); Terry National Art Exhibit, Miami (1952); Florida National Art Exhibition, Florida Southern College (1952); Second International Exhibition of Color Lithography, Cincinnati Art Museum (1952); 61st Annual Exhibition of American Art, Chicago Art Institute (1954); Third International Exhibition of Color Lithography, Cincinnati Art Museum (1954); 10th Annual Print Show, Brooklyn Museum (1956); Second Rowland Traveling Exhibition of Cape Cod Artists (1959); Contemporary American Water-Color Show, Grand Rapids (1963). Awards (partial list): Art Center Annual, J.B. Speed Art Museum (1945, 1950, 1958, first purchase awards); Terry National Art Exhibit, Miami (1952, Honorable Mention); Tri-State Exhibit, Evansville Museum (1952, purchase award); 9th Annual West Virginia Regional, Parkersburg, WV (1953, second prize); Kentucky State Fair (1954, first purchase award for its collection of Kentucky artists); Ohio Valley Exhibit, Ohio University (1954, purchase award); Interior Valley Exhibit, Cincinnati Art Museum (1955, prize); Kentucky State Fair (1958, purchase award). | |||||
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