Kenneth Pauling Riley (1919 - 2015) American
Watercolor on Paper
Measure 17"in H x 11"in W and 28"in H x 22"in W with frame

Known for: Genre-figure-Indian painting, illustration
Biography: A realist oil painter of the historical West, Ken Riley was born in Waverly, Missouri in 1919 and has been living in Tucson, Arizona since 1971. The intensity of the light "probably triggered the whole excitement about coming to the West," he commented, "especially the breaking light when you could see patterns. When you get into a big space with immense patterns moving across the countryside, it's unbelievable. Trying to get some of these effects is a lifetime right there." Raised in Kansas, Riley went to the Kansas City Art Institute to study with Thomas Hart Benton in 1938 when his high school art teacher offered to pay for the first semester. In 1941, he moved on to the Art Students League and Frank Vincent DuMond in New York City, with evening classes at the Grand Central School of Art and Harvey Dunn. Soon Riley was selling illustration, working for the National Geographic, the Saturday Evening Post, and other national publications. One painting was even accepted by President Kennedy for the White House collection. Painting Yellowstone and the Tetons for the National Park Service and teaching at Brigham Young University influenced Riley to move west. Also, he says that he "became excited about painting this country and tying in the historical aspects of it." Riley has been written up in Artist of the Rockies, Art West and Southwest Art.

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