Nate Dunn
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Born | Nathan Dunn 4 July 1896 Still Life, Abstract art |
Nathan Dunn (1896–1983) was an American
Life
Nathan "Nate" Dunn was born July 4, 1896, in
Career
Dunn studied painting and illustration at the
Dunn had his first major one-man show in 1957 at the Butler Institute of American Art.[4] This was followed by a solo exhibition at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in September 1958.[5] In 1960, he exhibited at the Canton Art Institute in Ohio, now the Canton Museum of Art (Ohio).[6] During 1959 and 1960 three of Dunn's oil paintings won first prize at the Freeland Art Show in Conneaut Lake, PA ("Three Seasons" in 1959 and "The Cove" and "Waiting" in 1960).[7] In November 1963 Dunn had a one-man exhibition at the Fine arts Forum in Warren, Ohio.[8] He also exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. By 1977 Dunn had shown his paintings in at least twelve solo exhibitions.[9]
In the early 1960s Dunn's paintings were sought out by Vincent Price after the actor met Dunn.[3] As a result of their meeting, Dunn's work was represented in the Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art,[10][3] which began in 1962 when Sears commissioned Vincent Price to acquire fine works of art in order to make fine art available to a wider audience.[11][12][13]
Dunn's work is in the permanent collections of the
Dunn was made a
From 1973–84 Dunn was listed in Who's Who in American Art and in 1999 in Who Was Who in American Art[18] and he is listed in Davenport's.[19] .
On August 24, 1983, Dunn's family auctioned five-hundred forty-five paintings by Dunn at a public auction at the artist's home.[2] Following this auction the majority of Dunn's paintings which were until then unavailable to the public, virtually his "life's work" according to "The Herald" in Sharon, Pennsylvania,[2] passed into private hands and collections. On July 31, 2012, and November 7, 2012, Gray's Auctioneers in Cleveland, Ohio, also offered a large number of Dunn's paintings (around one-hundred) at auction.[20] As a result of these auctions, most of Dunn's paintings are now owned privately or are included in private art collections.
Works
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References
- ^ "The Youngstown Daily Vindicator, November 18, 1983"
- ^ a b c d e "The Herald, Sharon, PA, August 25, 1983"
- ^ a b c "The Herald, Sharon, PA, August 16, 1980"
- ^ "Paintings by Nate Dunn Oct 8 thru Oct 20th 1957 The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio" Catalogue, Archives of the Butler Institute of American Art
- ^ "The Playhouse presents The Paintings of Nate Dunn, September 1958" Catalogue, Archives of the Butler Institute of American Art
- ^ "The Canton Art Institute, Pastels by Nate Dunn, March 20 - April 8th Catalog", Archives of the Butler Institute of American Art
- ^ Newspaper Clippings from "The Herald, Sharon, PA" 1959 & 1960, Archives of the Butler Institute of American Art
- ^ "Press Release - Nate Dunn One-Man Show at the Fine Arts Forum, Nov 19, 1963", Archives of the Butler Institute of American Art
- ^ a b c "The Herald, Sharon, PA, Sep 1, 1977"
- ^ http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2001/ms001033.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Sears and Fine Art". Sears.
- ^ "Vincent Price & the Sears Art Collection". Artists Network. 2 February 2017.
- ^ "The Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art". The Remodern Review. 26 April 2015.
- ^ A version of "The Cove" from 1959 (there are four known versions, one at the Butler Institute of American Art and three in a private collection in Massachusetts) is in the Permanent Collection of the Butler Institute of American Art, from Permanent Collection Record in the Archives of the Butler Institute of American Art
- ^ "Paintings by Nate Dunn Oct 8 thru Oct 20th 1957 The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio" Catalogue, Archives of the Butler Institute of American Art
- ^ Newspaper clipping entitled "Nate Dunn is Fellow of Royal Arts Society", Archives of the Butler Institute of American Art
- ^ There is various extant correspondence between Nate Dunn and Clyde Singer in the Archives of the Butler Institute of American Art
- ^ Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975
- ^ Davenport's Art and Reference and Price Guide, 2007-2008
- ^ "Gray's Auctioneers". Gray's Auctioneers.