Nancy M. Webb

Nancy Webb died peacefully at 5:13 PM, May 22 in her home in Wellfleet MA, with family members at her bedside. Nancy was born in 1926 in Concord New Hampshire . She lived a full and productive life . She trained as a painter and printmaker with George Cohen and Mervin Jules in the 1940s. In 1947 she married Bill Webb and became the art director of Noonday Press, the firm her husband was a partner. While there she designed books jackets for works by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Knut Hamsun among many others. In the 1960s she wrote and illustrated two children’s books published by Prentiss Hall Aguk of Alaska and Makema of the Rain Forest . In the mid sixties, she began sculpting in wax which was cast into bronze . She went on to have long and distinguished career, exhibiting her sculptures and drawings throughout the Northeast and Atlantic states . She had a retrospective at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 2006, and in 2011 received their life time achievement award at the sixth annual Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Gala. With Bill Webb she had 3 children: Alexander, a photographer; Patrick, a painter; and Sophie, a bird artist/biologist and children’s book author and illustrator. Nancy is survived by her sister Janet Chapin and her three children. There will be a memorial service at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum on September 9, 2012.