Kent Lemon

Kent Lemon was born in 1960 in Colorado Springs, Colorado where he grew up in a home filled with paintings and a family immersed in the fine arts. He was educated at Colorado University, Boulder and Parson’s School of Design, NYC. After studying in New York, he returned to Colorado and apprenticed with Denver artists Mark Daily and Ned Jacob. With numerous trips around the country and abroad as a plein air painter, he has gained wide acclaim for his use of color.

Lemon has had numerous one-man shows in both the East and West. He is a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York and is an Associate Member of Allied Artists of America. He has exhibited at the National Wildlife Museum in Jackson, WY, Fort Hunter Museum in Pennsylvania and the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK.

Lemon is also represented in the collections of: General Motors Corporation, Atlantic Richfield Corporation, University of Missouri, Colorado National Bank, Delloitte, Haskens & Sells, The Woman’s Bank, N.A., Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mellon Scaife, Blanca Pons-Sorolla, and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Cohen among others.

Additionally, Kent illustrates weekly for the national publication The Weekly Standard. He also illustrates for Gray’s Sporting Journal and The Double Gun Journal.