In 1915, he obtained a part-time teaching job at the Beechwood School near Philadelphia, which enabled him to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

[2] Between 1917 and 1925, he created many large canvasses of figures in the landscape, focusing on farm life of those times and painting his children and extended family mostly in outdoor settings.

In 1925, Nuse was offered a teaching position at PAFA, where he taught drawing and painting, life and portrait classes until 1954.

He became embittered toward the art world that was not interested in representational artists, but remained determined to continue painting in his Impressionist style.

In 2000, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, acquired one of Nuse's works, Age of Speed which depicts five children playing with a wheel in front of a barn.

[6][7] The 2002 Michener Museum exhibition and some successful results from sales of Nuse’s work at Freeman’s auction house in Philadelphia have helped to establish his place in art history as a Pennsylvania Impressionist.

[8] After years of critical and commercial neglect, interest in Pennsylvania Impressionism and the New Hope School began to develop in the 1980s and has continued to gain momentum.