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Painting the Portrait and Figurey
Nelson Shanks served as professor at the University of the Arts and George
Washington University; conducted seminars at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, the New York Academy of Art, the National Academy of Design, and the Art
Institute of Chicago. Arcadia University awarded him a Ph.D. in Fine Arts. He is one of
the most sought after teachers in the world and founder of the post-graduate school,
Studio Incamminati.
Mr. Shanks studied throughout Europe, including in Florence at Accademia di
Belle Arti and with Pietro Annigoni. Additional studies were at the University of Kansas,
the Kansas City Art Institute (with Wilbur Niewald), the Art Students League (with Ivan
Olinsky, Robert Brackman, and Edwin Dickinson), and privately with John Koch and
Henry Hensche.
His work has been exhibited at the National Academy of Design; Hirschl and
Adler Galleries; Coe Kerr, FAR Galleries; Dayton Art Institute; Butler Institute of Art;
Art Institute of Chicago; the New Jersey State Museum; the National Gallery of Art; the Philadelphia
Museum of Art; Oklahoma University; University of Pennsylvania;Temple University;
Jefferson University; John Hopkins University; College of William and Mary; Allentown
Art Museum; the Palmer Museum of Art; George Washington University; Royal Palace,
Stockholm; and Kensington Palace, London. A one-man exhibition was held at the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as well as Hirschl and Adler Galleries in 1996,
where his portrait of HRH the Princess of Wales was the featured painting in the Hirschl
and Adler exhibition, Yanks Paint Brits. In June 2006, he received the prestigious
Philadelphia Governorâs Award for Excellence in the Arts. In October 2006, the Union
League of Philadelphia held an exhibition of his work entitled Mastery and Meaning.
One-man exhibitions for 2008 have been requested by the Russian Academy, Moscow,
and the Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg.
Commissioned portraits of noted figures include: Her Royal Highness, Diana,The
Princess of Wales; His Majesty King Gustav and Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden;
Queen Julianna of the Netherlands; President of the United States, Ronald Reagan; Lady
Margaret Thatcher; Luciano Pavarotti; J. Carter Brown; Katherine Graham; Judge Guido
Calabresi; Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop; Robert Wood Johnson, Jr.; Mrs. Robert
Wood Johnson, Jr.; James Burke, Marcus Wallenberg; Dr. Peter Wallenberg; Ms. Darla
Moore; Mr. Lionel Pincus; Mr. Jerry Speyer; Chairman of the Board, Museum of Modern
Art, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Sr.; Chairman of the Board, Metropolitan Museum of Art;
Chairman Emeritus New York Times, Lord Charles Spencer; Mary McFadden; President
Clinton for the National Portrait Gallery; Pope John Paul II for the Vatican Museum;
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and many others.
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