The Influence of Nelson Shanks
by Matthew Innis |It has been two years since the art world lost the great Nelson Shanks. Â A superb painter of still lifes and the figure, and a portraitist of international fame (and a little infamy), Shanks was indisputably one of the greatest representational artists of the 20th century. Â Though he is still missed, the wonderful truth about artists such as Shanks is . . .