About Phila Calder Nye
Lived 1871 – 1959 (aged 88). Phila Calder Nye was an art historian.
Calder Nye (February 22, 1871 – ) was an American art historian. She was the first female director of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University.
Life Phila Calder Nye was born on February 22, 1871, in Wilmington, North Carolina.
She attended the Mount Vernon Seminary and College in Washington, D.C. from 1889 to 1891. Art Bulletin, Art in America, and Art & Archaeology. Phila Calder Nye died on 11 May 1959 in Wilmington, NC.
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American art historian
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Phila Calder Nye was born on 22 February 1871 in Wilmington.
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Phila Calder Nye died on 11 May 1959 in Wilmington.
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Phila Calder Nye was an art historian.
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