Roy Cleveland Nuse (1885-1975) played an integral part in both the Bucks County and Philadelphia art scenes. Nuse influenced several generations of artists as a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and through exhibitions of his paintings during his long career. He made many portrait and figure paintings of his six children, other relatives, and neighbors. Nuse lived on two different Bucks County farms, in Pipersville and Rushland, and these farms and the surrounding countryside became his most cherished subject for landscape paintings.

Image: Roy C. Nuse, Age of Speed, 1920. Oil on canvas. James A. Michener Art Museum. Museum Purchase with assistance from the Nuse Family.