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- Nan Watson, "Tulips", about 1932, oil on canvas, 18 × 18 inches (en)
- Nan Watson, "Plums", about 1939 oil on canvas, 10 x 12 inches (en)
- Nan Watson, "Beatrice Reading", about 1931, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 1/5 inches (en)
- Nan Watson in 1917 (en)
- Nan Watson, "Modern Puritan", about 1939 oil on canvas, 18 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (en)
- Nan Watson, "Lilies", about 1924, oil on linen, 18 x 12 inches (en)
- Nan Watson, "Portrait", about 1916, oil on canvas, 18 1/8 × 14 1/8 inches (en)
- Nan Watson, "Fruit in Blue Jar", about 1933, oil on canvas, 18 3/16 × 18 1/8 inches (en)
- Nan Watson, Untitled , about 1917, watercolor and pencil on paper, 12 3⁄8 x 7 1⁄2 inches (en)
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- A flower picture should express the painter's sense of the momentous power of natural growth—the power that is manifested when a seedling breaks through a solid asphalt pavement—and it should also be an orchestration of color and form, complete and entirely without accidental touches. (en)
- Nan Watson paints portraits, flowers, and still lifes with a quiet passion of understanding that gets to the heart of essences. There is never anything sensational in her work. She does not first essay to attract the eye, by whatever means seem most plangently annunciatory, and afterward to justify that summons. Instead, she paints with the poet's sincere impulse to realize what waits within. There is true mysticism here, in that the poet and the theme are one—again to advance what, if intangible, cannot possibly be dispensed with if we are to have art of genuine significance. The brushwork is sensitive and unobtrusive, It goes about its task with no fanfare; is reticent and at the same time never timid or groping. The field is thronged with artists who paint flowers; many of these artists are highly successful, though few are seen to arrive at the goal of superlative distinction. Among those who do attain this coveted goal, Nan Watson must certainly be numbered. (en)
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