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R. Kenton Nelson is an American painter, muralist, illustrator, and art teacher. He is best known for his large-scale, representational paintings of everyday life in the American West. He was born in Pasadena, California in 1954 and attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Nelson has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others. Nelson has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the California Arts Council Fellowship, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He is currently a professor of art at California State University, Long Beach.

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Occupation Painter, muralist, illustrator, art teacher
Age 69 years old
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Born , 1954
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Birthplace Pasadena, California
Nationality United States

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2013

The New Yorker has used his imagery five times for their covers. In 2013, he did paintings for the American Contemporary Ballet. Additionally, his paintings were featured in the 2003 film, Something's Gotta Give. In 2005, he published an art book.

1990

Since the 1990s, he has painted his work in a studio in Pasadena, California. His early influences include the photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American advertisements from the 1950s, Fred Astaire and Alfred Hitchcock, as well as the writings of John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Carver. He also credits David Alfaro Siqueiros, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and José Clemente Orozco, as well as Edward Hopper. Like Hopper and Grant Wood, he paints "narrative realism," set in Southern California

1954

R. Kenton Nelson (born 1954) is an American painter and muralist from California.

R. Kenton Nelson, now known as Kenton Nelson, was born in 1954 in Pasadena, California. His great-uncle, whom he was named after, was Roberto Montenegro, a Mexican muralist who was friends with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo (who married in his garden). His father worked at General Motors and his mother was a housewife. He graduated from the California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, California and attended the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California.