Nina B. Ward
Nina Belle Ward (1885-1944), an American painter, was born to James Pegram Ward and Martha Vesta Payne on January 23, 1885, in Rome, Georgia. After attending high school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, she attended New York University's School of Pedagogy from 1902 to 1903, after which she became a student at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts during the 1905–06 academic year and won silver and bronze medals as well as an honorable mention for her color and black and white portraits, From 1907 through 1912 she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) where she won Cresson Traveling fellowships in 1908, 1909 and 1911 (among the first American women to be awarded the fellowship and the only woman to have been awarded three) allowing her to visit England, Wales, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium and Spain.
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Nina B. Ward
- Born
- 1885 · Rome.
- Died
- 1944 · Kalamazoo.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Education
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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Nina Belle Ward (1885-1944), an American painter, was born to James Pegram Ward and Martha Vesta Payne on January 23, 1885, in Rome, Georgia. After attending high school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, she attended New York University's School of Pedagogy from 1902 to 1903, after which she became a student at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts during the 1905–06 academic year and won silver and bronze medals as well as an honorable mention for her color and black and white portraits, From 1907 through 1912 she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) where she won Cresson Traveling fellowships in 1908, 1909 and 1911 (among the first American women to be awarded the fellowship and the only woman to have been awarded three) allowing her to visit England, Wales, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium and Spain.
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Born at Rome in 1885, died in Kalamazoo in 1944.
Ward studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Work by Nina B. Ward is recorded in the collections of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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- 1.(Catalogue, 1905-1906).
- 2.(Falk, 1989)
- 3.Falk (1989a)
- 4.(Ward, 1930)
- 5.Lajeunesse letter
- 6.Deaths and Burials
- 7.("Elizabeth", 1913)
- 8.("Portrait of Mrs. Rudolph Blankenburg)
- 9."Gloucester Harbor", "Portrait of a Girl in a Pink Dress", and "Portrait of a Woman in Black"
- 10.Nina Ward's Paintings
- 11.Portrait of Mrs. Rudolph Blankenburg.
- 12.At Home And Abroad: Pennsylvania Academy's Annual Exhibition. The New York Times. February 14, 1915.
- 13.Elizabeth. January 2026.
- 14.Gloucester Harbor.
- 15.Portrait of a Girl in a Pink Dress.
- 16.Portrait of a Woman in Black.
- 17.Nina B. Ward Paintings.
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