Willard Ayer Nash (1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 1943 in Albuquerque) grew up in Detroit, Michigan.
In Detroit he studied art with John P. Wicker and became successful as a commercial artist.
[1] He moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1920 and became friends with the other modernist artists in the area.
[3] He moved to California in 1936, teaching in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
[4] He contributed to, and lived in, the Camino del Monte Sol Historic District in Santa Fe, New Mexico, living at 566 Camino del Monte Sol.