Nate Dunn

Nathan Dunn (1896–1983) was an American painter born July 4, 1896, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dunn's work is associated with the Pennsylvania Impressionists. He was an impressionist, abstract, and modernist artist and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His paintings are held in private and museum collections.

Life Nathan "Nate" Dunn was born July 4, 1896, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Polish-Russian parents (Israel and Edith "Ida" Dunn). He moved to Sharon, Pennsylvania in the Shenango Valley in 1926 and remained there until his death. Dunn was an art teacher at the Julia F. Girls' Buhl School in Sharon for over twenty-five years. and became best known for his impressionist, abstract, and modernist works throughout the tri-state area of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. He also painted in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, during the summer months.

Dunn had his first major one-man show in 1957 at the Butler Institute of American Art. This was followed by a solo exhibition at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in September 1958. In 1960, he exhibited at the Canton Art Institute in Ohio, now the Canton Museum of Art (Ohio). 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). In November 1963 Dunn had a one-man exhibition at the Fine arts Forum in Warren, Ohio. He also exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. By 1977 Dunn had shown his paintings in at least twelve solo exhibitions.

In the early 1960s Dunn's paintings were sought out by Vincent Price after the actor met Dunn.

Dunn's work is in the permanent collections of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Thiel College

Dunn was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts by the Royal Society of Arts and was a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh.

From 1973 to 1984 Dunn was listed in Who's Who in American Art and in 1999 in Who Was Who in American Art and he is listed in Davenport's. .

On August 24, 1983, Dunn's family auctioned five-hundred forty-five paintings by Dunn at a public auction at the artist's home. As a result of these auctions, most of Dunn's paintings are now owned privately or are included in private art collections.

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