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|  Born in Fleming County, KY in 1882. Nash studied in Paris in 1905 and then lived briefly in Texas moving to St Louis, MO. He painted scenery for the opera house there before arriving in southern California in 1920. In 1930 he was in Oklahoma City. Continuing a peripatetic existence, he continued as a scene painter for the movie studios and painted the burning of Atlanta for "Gone With the Wind" in 1938. In St Louis he taught for awhile at Washington University School of Fine Arts. In: Jefferson Nat'l Historical Ass'n (St Louis). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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