Thomas W. Nason

Thomas Willoughby Nason was an American printmaker, born in Billerica, Massachusetts. Largely self-taught, Nason drew much of his inspiration from rural America, where he'd grown up on a farm. Many of his works depict moody or poetic landscapes and farm scenes. 

Nason jump started his career by selling six wood engravings to Century Magazine in 1923. Soon, his work was being sold at a variety of galleries and bookstores, including Goodspeed’s Book Shop in Boston. By the 1930s, his work had won numerous awards and he was receiving one-man shows at Goodspeeds (1933 and 1935) and at major institutions such as the Dallas Art Museum (October 1935) and the Carnegie Public Library in Fort Worth, TX (November 1935). 

Nason found additional work in the commercial industry, where he had a close relationship with Spiral Press. Some of that work included illustrating the poetic works of Robert Frost. 

His work can be found in the Florence Griswold Museum, Connecticut; Smithsonian, Washington D.C.; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; New York Public Library, New York;  Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; and others.