A realist painter of the Old West and a highly successful illustrator, Ken Riley was born in Waverly, Missouri in 1919 and has had a studio in Tucson, Arizona from 1971. He was raised in Kansas and... Read full biography
A realist painter of the Old West and a highly successful illustrator, Ken Riley was born in Waverly, Missouri in 1919 and has had a studio in Tucson, Arizona from 1971. He was raised in Kansas and received his art education at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he was a student of Thomas Hart... Read full biography
A realist painter of the Old West and a highly successful illustrator, Ken Riley was born in Waverly, Missouri in 1919 and has had a studio in Tucson, Arizona from 1971. He was raised in Kansas and received his art education at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he was a student of Thomas Hart Benton. Aware of Riley's unusual talent, a high school art teacher had paid for his first semester of tuition at the Institute. In 1941, Riley went to New York to study with Frank DuMond at the Art... Read full biography
A realist painter of the Old West and a highly successful illustrator, Ken Riley was born in Waverly, Missouri in 1919 and has had a studio in Tucson, Arizona from 1971. He was raised in Kansas and received his art education at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he was a student of Thomas Hart Benton. Aware of Riley's unusual talent, a high school art teacher had paid for his first semester of tuition at the Institute. In 1941, Riley went to New York to study with Frank DuMond at the Art Students League*, and he also took evening classes at the Grand Central School of Art* and with illustrator Harvey Dunn. Riley began his illustration career by selling work to the pulp magazines* for fifteen dollars each, but enlistment in World War II... Read full biography
A realist painter of the Old West and a highly successful illustrator, Ken Riley was born in Waverly, Missouri in 1919 and has had a studio in Tucson, Arizona from 1971. He was raised in Kansas and received his art education at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he was a student of Thomas Hart Benton. Aware of Riley's unusual talent, a high school art teacher had paid for his first semester of tuition at the Institute. In 1941, Riley went to New York to study with Frank DuMond at the Art Students League*, and he also took evening classes at the Grand Central School of Art* and with illustrator Harvey Dunn. Riley began his illustration career by selling work to the pulp magazines* for fifteen dollars each, but enlistment in World War II as a combat artist* for the Coast Guard redirected his work. During the war, he was on site at the invasions of the Gilb... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (42)
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Robert Lougheed Follow the Sun
2010
Hedgpeth, Don
360 pages (color)
Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945
2006
Craig, Susan (Compiler)
0 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Cowboy Artists of America
2002
Duty, Michael; Don Hedgpeth
216 pages (color)
Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists 2001 Edition
2001
Editors, Art of the West
88 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
The Great American West
2000
Editor, Settlers West
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Cowboy Artists of America Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Phoenix Art Museum
80 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America 32nd Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Cowboy Artists of America
80 pages (color)
Leading the West One Hundred Contemporary Painters & Sculptors
1997
Hagerty, Donald J
213 pages (color)
Prix de West Invitational 1997 (Exhibition catalog)
1997
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
194 pages (color)
The Tucson 7 (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Sherman, Tisa (others)
64 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
Prix de West Invitational 1996 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
192 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America 30th Anniversary Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Haley, J. Evetts (Introduction)
80 pages (color)
Under the Influence: The Students Of Thomas Hart Benton
1993
Berardi, Marianne; Henry Adams
0 pages
West of Camelot The Historical Paintings of Kenneth Riley
1993
McGarry, Susan Hallsten
220 pages (color)
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide
1991
Gilbert Anne
1,991 pages (color)
Artists of America Tenth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Denver Rotary Club
160 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America Twenty Fourth Annual Exhibition 1989 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Cowboy Artists of America
60 pages (color)
Artists of America Eighth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Denver Rotary Club
143 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Reynolds, Catherine
153 pages (color)
Cowboy Artists of America 1986 Twenty-First Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Carter, Gary (Introduction)
64 pages (color)
National Academy of Western Art Fourteenth Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1986
National Academy Western Art
112 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
National Academy of Western Art Twelfth Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1984
National Academy Western Art
98 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
Visions West The Story of Cowboy Artists of America Museum
1983
Dedera, Don
84 pages (color)
Artists of America Second Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Denver Rotary Club
143 pages (color)
Contemporary Western Artists
1982
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
608 pages (color)
Artists of America First Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Denver Rotary Club
141 pages (color)
National Academy of Western Art Ninth Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Krakel, Dean (Intro)
0 pages (color)
Magic and Other Realism The Art of Illusion
1980
Munce, Howard et al
111 pages (color)
National Academy of Western Art Eighth Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1980
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
96 pages (color)
National Academy of Western Art Sixth Annual Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)