Discipline: Visual Art

Nan Tull

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Boston, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991, 1994
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Nan Tull is a painter and artist whose work has been widely exhibited and reviewed throughout New England, as well as around the United States over the past 35 years. In addition to more than 25 one-person exhibitions, the Boston Public Library's Prints and Drawings Department exhibited a 20-year retrospective of her drawings in 1994. Another, spanning 25 years of paintings and drawings, was on view in 2009 at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA. She continues to exhibit regularly, with two solo exhibitions and a group museum exhibition in 2016, as well as numerous other group exhibitions to the present in 2018. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the DeCordova Museum, the Boston Public Library, the Danforth Museum of Art, the Art Complex Museum, the Vineyard Museum, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, and the Palo Alto Cultural Center. She is a 1983 founding member of the 249 A Street Cooperative in the Fort Point Channel area of Boston, where she still works.

Studios

Firth

Nan Tull worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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