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Selected Publications

"Nelson Boren, A Signature Style", "American Artist Magazine", June 2008 pages 62-73

"Phoenix Home and Garden Magazine", March 2008

Feature Artist in the book "Western Traditions", by Michael Duty & Suzanne Deats, 2005

Contemporary Western Art, "Cowboys & Indians Magazine", January 2003

Feature Artist in the book "Leading the West", by Donald J. Hagerty

Painting the Human Form - "American Artist Magazine", Watercolor Winter 1996

Below the Belt - "Southwest Art Magazine", March 1994

The Detail Man - "Art of the West", September 1993

New West Artists Use Symbols of West - "Art Talk", December 1994

Nelson Boren Artist - "The Santa Fean Magazine", July 1993

The New West - "Southwest Art Magazine", May 2000

Home on the Range - "Scottsdale Life Magazine", April 2002

.... and many other publications and articles.



Selected Exhibitions

Legacy Contempory Show – February, 2007

American Western Art Classic – June 2008

Scottsdale Art Auction – 2007, 2008

Buffalo Bill Art Show – 1998-2002 and 2007-2008

Whitney Gallery of Western Art at the Buffalo Bill Historic Museum - Cody, Wyoming

Museum of Nebraska Art - Spirit of the Great Plains 1998

Buffalo Bill Art Show - 1998-2002, Cody, Wyoming

Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona - Brush With Reality Show 1999

Art of the Southwest traveling exhibition - Javitts Center New York & Minneapolis 1989

Best of Scottsdale - Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona 1989-90

1997 Reno Rodeo Poster Artist - Reno, Nevada

Other Side of the West (OSW) National Museum tour 1999-2004 including the following venues:



Selected Collections

Charles and Jeanette Gilchrist White collection in Peoria, Illinois

Whitney Gallery of Western Art - Buffalo Bill Historical Center - Cody, Wyoming

Booth Western Art Museum - Cartersville, Georgia

Dallas Cowboys NFL football team collection

Minnesota Vikings NFL football team collection

Steve Forbes Foundation Art Collection

Coca Cola Company

Museum of Nebraska Art - Kearney, Nebraska

Beef Growers of America Corporate Art Collection

... and many other corporate and private collections in the United States and abroad


"Boren's watercolors feature intricate, close-up details of cowboy boots, spurs, chap-covered legs, or gloved hands holding a rope." (Donald J. Hagerty, LEADING the WEST)