Artists by Name

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• Nason, Gertrude

  Gertrude Nason

  1890 – 1968

• Nason, Thomas Willoughby

  Thomas Willoughby Nason

  1889 – 1971

• National Theatre of the Deaf, Inc.,

  National Theatre of the Deaf, Inc.

  1967 –

  This premiere acting company comprised of deaf and hearing actors and performing simultaneously in American Sign Language and spoken word.

• Nebel, Berthold

  Berthold Nebel

  1889 – 1964

• Nelson, Ralph Lewis

  Ralph Lewis Nelson

  1885 – 1967

  WPA

• Noguchi, Isamu

  Isamu Noguchi

  1904 – 1988

  Prominent sculptor and landscape designer whose Connecticut commissions include monumental sculptures and courtyard gardens at CIGNA headquarters in Bloomfield and a courtyard garden at the Beinecke Library in New Haven at Yale University.

• Novack, Frank

  Frank Novack

  1940 –

  Attended Norwich Free Academy, returning there to teach c.1971 for the next 38 years until his retirement. Novack exemplifies the pattern of artist-teachers with experience in the larger world but a deep commitment to Norwich.

• Noyes, Eliot

  Eliot Noyes

  1910 – 1977

  Noyes promoted Modernist architecture and design both through his own work and by hiring contemporaries for client corporations such as IBM, Westinghouse, and Mobil. For the latter, he created the iconic round gas pumps and roofs associated with Mobil gas stations around the States. A 30-year resident of New Canaan, not only did his design his own home, but several others as well in the 1950s, and in 1974, the Wilton Library, since renovated and expanded.