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| | Born in Massachusetts in 1829. By the 1870s Nye had settled in San Francisco. After the earthquake in 1906, he moved across the bay to Oakland where he remained until his death on June 21, 1922. Exhibited: Mechanics' Institute (San Francisco), 1876, 1879. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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