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DANIEL E.
GREENE, N.A.
Daniel E. Greene, N.A.,
is a former instructor of painting at The National
Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New
York. He is the author of the book “Pastel” that was in
print for 25 years and “The Art of Pastel”, which were
published in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian
and Chinese. He has taught over 10,000 students, and his
books and videos have reached in excess of 100,000
artists worldwide.
In 1983, The Pastel Society of
America elected him to The Pastel Hall of Fame. In
1989, his work represented the United States at the
first international biennial of pastel in San Quentin,
France. In 1992, he was awarded American artist’s
magazine’s first lifetime achievement award in the
category of oil painting and The Oil Painters of America
Society named him to their hall of fame. In 1995, The
American Society of Portrait Artists presented the John
Singer Sargent award to Daniel Greene for life long
dedication to the achievement of excellence in
portraiture. In 2001, he was awarded the gold medal of
The American Portrait Society. In 2003, Mr. Greene was
the annual honoree of The Salmagundi Club and was
presented their gold medal.
Mr. Greene’s paintings and
pastels are in over 700 public and private collections
in the United States and abroad. He has been the
recipient of the Elizabeth T. Greenshields foundation
grant and the Anna Lee Stacey grant. Four highly
successful exhibitions of Mr. Greene’s subway series
appeared at galleries in New York City and were featured
on ABC-TV, News Day Dot Com, Fox News, PBS, CNN, New
York 1, NBC, NHK TV Japan, The New York Times and in
over 50 international magazines and newspapers. His
recent exhibition “Subway Paintings” at the New York
Transit Museum at Grand Central Terminal was the
inaugural event in the centennial year of the New York
subway and a compilation of his subway paintings
represented New York City on the cover of the official
guide to the republican national convention.
Highly regarded as a portrait
artist, his subjects include leaders of government,
banking, education, and industry. A few of the early
works include Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, astronaut Walter
Schirra, author Ayn Rand, and William Randolph Hearst.
Some governmental portraits
include Governor Scott of North Carolina, Governor
Laxalt of Nevada, Governor Beliles of Virginia, Governor
Lehman of New York, as well as two mayors of New York
City. Some later portraits include Dave Thomas of
Wendy’s, Governor Fob James of Alabama, Commentator Rush
Limbaugh, congressmen Billy Tauzin and Larry
Combest, composer Alan Menken and Bryant Gumbel
and Bob Schieffer of CBS. Recent portraits were
Governor Benjamin Cayetano of Hawaii and former
secretary of agriculture Ann Veneman.
A partial list of sitters
includes the Chairmen of the Boards of Honeywell,
Coca-Cola Company, DuPont Corporation, American Express,
the New York Stock Exchange and IBM. Mr. Greene has
also painted the Deans, Presidents and Benefactors of
Tufts, Duke, Vanderbilt, Columbia, North Carolina, West
Point, Delaware, Penn State, New York, Princeton,
Rutgers, Yale and Harvard Universities. |
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