Phila Calder Nye
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| Born | February 22, 1871  Wilmington |
| Died | May 11, 1959 (aged 88) Wilmington |
Phila Calder Nye (February 22, 1871 – May 11, 1959) was an American art historian. She was the first female director of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University.[1]
Life[edit]
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.[1]
She was a professor at Princeton University. In 1920, she became director of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton. She retired in 1933.
Her work appeared in American Journal of Archaeology,[2] Art Bulletin,[3] Art in America,[4] and Art & Archaeology.[1]
Works[edit]
- Art History in Outline, Washington, D.C.: Press of W.F. Roberts, 1901
Death and legacy[edit]
She married Joseph Keith Nye.[5] Phila Calder Nye died on 11 May 1959 in Wilmington, NC.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Morey, Charles Rufus (2020-09-21). "Nye, Phila Calder "An Important Instrument of Research: Princeton's Index of Christian Art, Covering 50,000 Subjects and Twelve Centuries of Time, Is Used by Scholars All Over the World."". Princeton Alumni Weekly 23 (1931): 236-37. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
- ^ Nye, Phila Calder (1919). "The Oblong Caskets of the Byzantine Period". American Journal of Archaeology. 23 (4): 401–412. doi:10.2307/497859. ISSN 0002-9114. JSTOR 497859.
- ^ Nye, Phila Calder (1923-03-01). "The Romanesque Signs of the Zodiac". The Art Bulletin. 5 (3): 55–57. doi:10.1080/00043079.1923.11409735. ISSN 0004-3079.
- ^ Art in America. Art in America, Incorporated. 1915.
- ^ A Genealogy of the Nye Family. Nye family of America Association. 1907.
- ^ "MRS. PHILA C. NYE". New York Times. May 14, 1959. p. 33.
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