Clement Nye Swift
{{Short description|American painter}}
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Clement Nye Swift (1846 – March 29, 1918) was an American artist associated with the Pont-Aven School and known for his paintings of nautical themes and of life in Brittany and Massachusetts.
Biography
File:Clement Nye Swift Ramasseurs de goémon.jpg
File:Clement Nye Swift Couple devant une fontaine.jpg
Swift was born in 1846 in Acushnet, Massachusetts, to Rhodolphus Nye Swift and Sylvia Hathaway. As a child, he attended the Friends Academy in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.{{cite web|title=Inventory of the Clement Nye Swift Papers|website=New Bedford Whaling Museum|access-date=December 26, 2016|url=https://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/library/finding-aids/mss22|archive-date=December 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227195444/https://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/library/finding-aids/mss22|url-status=dead}} His early interest was in painting animals, and he moved to France to study painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He also studied with the artists Adolphe Yvon and Henri Harpignies.{{cite book|author=Howland, Franklyn|title=A History of the Town of Acushnet, Bristol County, State of Massachusetts|publisher=Published by the author.|date=1907|location=New Bedford, Massachusetts|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ahistorytownacu00howlgoog/page/n375 355]–356|access-date=December 26, 2016|url=https://archive.org/details/ahistorytownacu00howlgoog|quote=clement nye swift.}}
After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he moved to Brittany. He settled in the coastal town of Pont-Aven, where he joined the artistic community known the Pont-Aven School. He lived there for ten years, and during this time he produced the majority of his paintings. Between 1872 and 1880, he exhibited his work at the Paris Salon.
In 1881, Swift returned to Acushnet, Massachusetts, where he took up writing, producing a series of stories and poems. He married his cousin Annie Amelia Swift on October 15, 1895.{{cite book|author1=Nye, George Hyatt|author2=Best, Frank E|author3=Nye, David Fisher|title=A genealogy of the Nye family|publisher=The Nye Family of America Foundation|date=1907|access-date=December 26, 2016|url=https://archive.org/details/genealogyofnyefa02nyeg|page=[https://archive.org/details/genealogyofnyefa02nyeg/page/311 311]|quote=clement nye swift.}} He died March 29, 1918, and is buried in Acushnet Cemetery.{{cite web|title=Clement Nye Swift|website=Find a Grave|date=July 3, 2011|access-date=December 26, 2016|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72561408}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/library/finding-aids/mss22#series2 Clement Nye Swift papers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227195444/https://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/library/finding-aids/mss22#series2 |date=2016-12-27 }} at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
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Category:19th-century American painters
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:American marine artists
Category:People from Acushnet, Massachusetts