Phila Calder Nye
Phila Calder Nye was an American art historian. She was the first female director of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University.
Life
Phila Calder Nye was born on February 22, 1871, in Wilmington, North Carolina.She attended the Mount Vernon Seminary and College in Washington, D.C. from 1889 to 1891.
In 1920, she became director of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton. She retired in 1933.
Her work appeared in American Journal of Archaeology, Art Bulletin, Art in America, and ''Art & Archaeology.''
Works
- Art History in Outline, Washington, D.C.: Press of W.F. Roberts, 1901