Edgar Hewitt Nye Art for Sale at Auction

Painter, Landscape painter, b. 1879 - d. 1943

Edgar Hewitt Nye was a painter and teacher who spent most of his life in the Washington, D.C. area. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art, 1892-1900, and later in life exhibited with the "X" painters at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. From 1905-1920 he studied and painted in France and England, including with John Noble Barlow. Nye returned to Washington permanently in 1921.