 Nan Favre is primarily known as Nan Faure Greacen
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Giverny, France where her father Edmund Greacen was an
impressionist painter actively following Claude Monet, Nan Greacen
became a noted oil painter and watercolorist. She began earning
awards from 1936, when she received the Hallgarten Prize at the
National Academy of Design. In the following years, her award
medals were from the National Arts Club, Montclair Art Museum, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, Hudson Valley Art Association and
Grumbacher Society.
She graduated from the Brearley School in
New York City and then studied for four years at the Grand Central Art
School, which her father had established in 1921. Her instructors
were Wayman Adams, Arshile Gorky, Jerry Farnsworth and her father. She
taught drawing and still life at the school from 1931 to 1942, and from
1942 to 1968, gave private classes at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida where
she had moved with her husband, Rene Bard Faure.
She also wrote and illustrated two books on painting technique: Still Life is Exciting [1965] and The Magic of Flower Painting [1971].
She died on November 15, 1999 at Vicars Landing, Florida.
Her
one-woman exhibitions include Grand Central Art Gallery, 1967; Daytona
Beach Art Gallery, 1969; and Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, 1972-1974.
She
was a member of The National Academy of Design, Audubon Artists, Allied
Artists of America, Hudson Valley Art Association, Florida Water Color
Society and Jacksonville Water Color Society.
Source:
Paul Sternberg Sr., Art by American Women
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following, submitted April 2004, is from Renee Faure, daughter of the artist.
Nan
Greacen was born in 1908 in Giverny, France while her father, Edmund W.
Greacen was living and painting there as one of the American
Impressionists who congregated around Claude Monet. She studied and
taught in her father's school, The Grand Central School of Art, until
it closed in 1942 due to his ill health.
In 1940, she became the youngest woman to be elected an Associate to
the National Academy in 1940. She became a full Academician, NA,
in 1962.
She
moved to Scarsdale, New York in 1945 with her husband, Rene Bard Faure,
and two children, Nancy and Renee. Here she continued her successful
painting and teaching career until 1969 when she and her husband
retired to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
It was during this time
in Ponte Vedra that she published two instructional books with Walter
Foster, Still Life Is Exciting and The Magic of Flower Painting.
She continued to paint and teach until her death in 1999.
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