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Selected Publications

Star Wars Visions

Feature article in in the November 2010 issue of Southwest Art Magazine.

"Trout Fishing in America", "American Art Collector Magazine", August 2009

"Fly-fishing, cowboys and cowgirls", "Western Art Collector Magazine", September 2009

"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 Gallery Jackson Show - 2006 - 2009

America Western Art Classic - 2008, 2009

Scottsdale Art Auction - 2007 - 2009

Buffalo Bill Art Show - 1998-2002 and 2007-2009, Cody, Wyoming

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

Museum of Nebraska Art - Spirit of the Great Plains 1998

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


"We can practically hear the creaking leather and smell the musty, oily aroma of gloves and gear as the callused hide goes soft in the hands of this industrious cowboy. That Boren manages to imply a story with his faceless cowpuncher is merely a bonus" (U.S. Art magazine, Feb/March 2001)