We Buy and Sell Paintings by Richard L. Nelson (1901 – 1972)

 
Richard L. Nelson was born in 1901 in Georgetown, Texas.  He went to high school in Brooklyn and later trained as an engineer at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He attended the University of Minnesota as a medical student and also worked in Chicago as a draftsman and designer for the Chicago Bureau of Water Works.

From 1927 to 1933, Richard Nelson studied art at the Chicago Art Institute.  In 1935 he began to study music and met his wife, Maurine Fay Morse, who was also a music student, and the two married in 1937.

In 1939 now a professor, Richard Nelson, left Chicago for Los Angeles and went to work for the Shell Oil Company as an engineer until 1942.  At the age of forty-one, he enlisted as a private in the Army Engineer Corps and attained the rank of captain. After the war, he decided to remain in Europe to study painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Returning to the United States in the summer of 1946, Nelson attended Mills College in Oakland, California, and studied with Reginald Marsh.  Nelson would also attend UC Berkeley earning an A.B. and M.A.  While at Berkeley, he studied art with Erle (Earle) Loran, James McCray, Chiura Obata, and Glenn Wessels.  From 1948 to 1952, he worked as an instructor at the Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.

In 1952, the University of California, Davis recruited professor Davis to establish a new art department.  He would start the art department “from the ground up” and serve as Chairman of the Department of Art at the University.

Richard Nelson died in Davis, California, on August 2, 1972.

Exhibitions (known)

1966    The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association Art Association
1964    The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association Art Association
1963    The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association Art Association
1962    The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association Art Association
1961    One Man Exhibition, Sacramento
1960    The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association Art Association
1959    San Francisco Art Association Annual, San Francisco
1959    SFMOMA 78^th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association
1959    Kingsley Art Club, Sacramento
1959    Crocker Art Gallery
1959    The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association Art Association
1958    Richmond Art Center
1968    The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association Art Association
1950    SFMOMA 69^th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Art Association

Literature
AskART.com Inc. Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (editor).  The Artists Bluebook
Landauer, Susan, et al.  San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism
Falk, Peter Hastings (editor).  Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975.
San Francisco Art Association (Institute) of the Art Bank

Sources:
David J. Carlson, Carlson Gallery
University of California Faculty Biography
askART.com

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