Artist's Bio
Nan Tull is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she received her Diploma, 5th Year Certificate and the Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship. She also studied art at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris, the U. of Tennessee (Knoxville) and at Foothill College (CA). She received her B.A. from Wellesley College (MA) and her M.A. from Stanford University (CA).
Her work has been widely exhibited and reviewed throughout New England and along the East Coast as well as throughout the United States over the past thirty years. Nan Tull has been awarded an Artists Foundation Fellowship (MA), and a NEA/NEFA fellowship, as well as residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Colony (VT). She has had 25 one-person exhibitions and the Boston Public Library's Prints and Drawings Department exhibited a 20 Year Retrospective of her drawings in 1994. From September to November, 2009, a 25-year retrospective of her work was on view at the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA, at which time she also had a solo exhibition of new encaustic paintings in Boston at Soprafina Gallery, which represents her. The exhibitions were enthusiastically reviewed in the Boston Globe, Art New England, Art Scope and the Metro-News West.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the DeCordova Museum (MA), the Boston Public Library, the Danforth Museum (MA), the Art Complex Museum (MA), the Vineyard Museum (MA), and the Palo Alto Cultural Center (CA). In addition, over fifty corporate and non-profit organizations, including the Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo Bank, Yale University Hospital and the Ritz Carlton Hotel, as well as many significant private collectors across the United States and abroad, have acquired her work.
Nan Tull is a founding member of the live-work 249 A Street Cooperative in the Fort Point Channel area of Boston, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2008. She still works there.
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