Artist Robin Nuse, 67, died May 3, 2019, at her home in Hanover, N.H.

Robin endured malignant melanoma for almost four years but her death came as a shock to most of her many friends because she remained vigorous and optimistic until the very end. She played an active game of tennis a week before her death.

She was born in Doylestown, Pa., on Jan. 10, 1952, daughter of J. Paul and May Nuse. Her parents, a violinist and a cellist, were teachers except when financial necessity dictated otherwise. Her grandfather Roy Nuse, whom she revered and emulated, was a Pennsylvania Impressionist painter.

Mr. Nuse was honored as a young artist but did not join the expressionist and abstract vanguard as it captured the art world and he gradually withdrew his work from public exhibition.

Robin found, photographed and cataloged several hundred Roy Nuse works in the possession of the extended family and organized a retrospective exhibition of his work at the James Michener museum in Doylestown, which brought his name and work back into prominence.

The Michener museum is now a major repository of his work.

Robin learned from her grandfather, and her artistic education continued in college. Robin was raised in Warrington, Pa., attended Bucks County High School, then graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, where excelled in photography, and spent a formative year in Rome.

She then moved to Vermont, where she pursued her artistic interests as a docent at the Fleming Museum in Burlington, as an art teacher in northwestern Vermont, as an art therapist at the Vermont State Hospital and as the creator of a series of animal masks that were sold in craft fairs throughout the Northeast. She earned a master’s degree in art therapy at Goddard College.

Robin met Arthur Gardiner in a community theater production in Hyde Park and they married in 1989. She then found the time to work on her career as a pictorial artist. In early work, she used pastels but gradually evolved into oil paints.

Her work is dominated by landscapes around the Upper Valley and her second home near Stowe. She helped found the Jacob Walker Art Gallery in Morristown that offered exhibition space for many artists in northern Vermont. Robin’s work has been shown at many galleries over the years and can now be seen on her website.

Survivors include her husband; her son Andrew; two brothers, Gene Nuse of Fayette, Mo., and Eric Nuse of Johnson; a sister, Anne Matey of Salisbury, Md.; and many nieces and nephews.

A memorial service is being planned. The date has not yet been set.

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