Richard L. Nelson
Post-War Artist Richard Nelson studied at The Chicago Art Institute and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. Nelson received his M.A. at the University of California, Berkeley and served as Chairman of the Department of Art at University of California, Davis.
Selected Exhibitions: One-Man Exhibition: Sacramento, 1961; Group Exhibitions: San Francisco Art Association Annual, 1959; Richmond Art Center, 1958; 69th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950; 78th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at The San Francisco Museum of Art, 1959; Kingsley Art Club, Sacramento, 1959; Crocker Art Gallery, 1959.The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, 1958, 59, 60, 62,63,64,66;
Awards: San Francisco Art Association Annual, 1963, Kingsley Annual,
Sacramento, 1954
Literature: San Francisco Art Association (Institute) Catalog of the Art Bank.
Source: Carlson Research Library, Carmel, CA
At the conclusion of the war, he decided to remain in Europe to study painting at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He studied with Pierre Alechinsky who went on to be one of the founding members of the COBRA School movement.
In summer 1946 he returned to the United States to study with Reginald Marsh at Mills College, and to enter UCB, earning the A.B. and M.A. during the following two years. While at Berkeley, he studied with such outstanding teachers as Erle Loran, James McCray, Chiura Obata, Margaret O'Hagan, Worth Ryder, and Glenn Wessels in art and with Stephen Pepper in philosophy.
Between 1959 and 1962 Richard L. Nelson brought together a legendary faculty built around the participation of Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud, and William T. Wiley.
Literature: U.C. Davis.
Source: Miller Fine Art
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