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|  Alphonse J. Shelton was born in Liverpool, England, February 11, 1905, and was naturalized with his parents when they settled in Boston a few years later.
He studied at the Museum School of Fine Arts, receiving seven scholarships. Although specializing in portraiture, he soon became intensely interested in the sea and moved to the Maine coast where he lived and painted for more than 25 years.
Several seasons were spent in Winslow Homer's studio at Prout's Neck. Bowdoin College commissioned him to paint Rear Admiral MacMillan's arctic ship, Bowdoin.
In 1962, he returned to Boston as head of the Fine Arts department at the Butera School of Art. Two years later he left the city and came to live in Farmington, New Hampshire.
He has had many national exhibitions and one man show at galleries throughout the East.
Memberships included the Guild of Boston Artists; Grand Central Galleries, New York; Allied Artists of America, New York; Academic Artists, Springfield, Massachusetts; Copley Society of Boston; North Shore Art Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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Alphonse Joseph Shelton was born in Liverpool, England, in 1905. He studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and privately with Lester Stephens. Among his awards are the Logan Award and the Bronze Medal, 1941, Boston; the Medal of the Society for Sanity in Art, and on April 27, 1964, he was awarded the Silver Medal by the Council of American Artist Societies in their National Exhibition. This award was for his painting "Coming Storm." Shelton has exhibited throughout the United States. His work is represented in the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine, and at Bowdoin College, Maine.
Source:
Newman Galleries
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