Nelson Greene
Artworks: 11
Artist and Mohawk Valley historian
Nelson Beach Greene was an American artist and editor. His mother was Annie Lydia Beach. His father, Horace Lester Greene, was owner of the Mohawk Valley Register in Fort Plain. Nelson Greene went to New York City in 1887, where he studied art at the Arts Students League. After his father's death 1891 he helped his mother to manage the Register. In 1906 he married the artist Lillian Currier Steinert. Many of his drawings appeared in Puck (magazine). He edited numerous publications on the history of the Mohawk Valley, amongst them The Old Mohawk Turnpike Book (1924) and the History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925 (1925). He was editor of the Fort Plain Standard from 1922 to 1939.
Artworks by this artist (11 total)
- French pastry 1914
- The pied piper of America 1914
- The narrowing target 1914
- The Morning Republican fourth of July number 1898
- Out With Him!
- Newyorkitis 1914
- Just to be conspicuous 1914
- Uncle Sam picking up Mexican revolutionists with a shovel for the international rubbish can 1915
- Prison cell scene with Tom Watson, Georgian Democratic politician and writer
- A man uses his cane to poke a fat man who is shouting ‘Deutschland uber allies! Down mit Wilson!’
- Rumpled, stout, and drunk gentleman rolls up to ‘Paying Teller’ who holds slip in his fist and looks sternly at the man 1911