| 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.
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.
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, Art Bulletin, Art in America, and Art & Archaeology.
Works
- Art History in Outline, Washington, D.C.: Press of W.F. Roberts, 1901
Death and legacy
She married Joseph Keith Nye. Phila Calder Nye died on 11 May 1959 in Wilmington, NC.
References
- ^ 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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