Nathan Greene is a contemporary American

United States

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 artist

Artist

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 and painter

Painting

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While Bill Frist

Bill Frist

William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr. is an American physician, businessman, and politician. He began his career as an heir and major stockholder to the for-profit hospital chain of Hospital Corporation of America. Frist later served two terms as a Republican United States Senator representing...

 was the Senate Majority Leader, a lithograph of a Greene painting hung in his office. A Greene painting hangs in the office of the US Senate chaplain Barry Black

Barry Black

Barry C. Black is the 62nd Chaplain of the United States Senate. He was elected to this position on June 27, 2003, becoming the first African-American, the first Seventh-day Adventist, and the first military chaplain to hold the office of chaplain to the United States Senate...

. The evangelical television show It Is Written

It Is Written

It Is Written is an internationally broadcast Christian television program founded in 1956 by George Vandeman. Its title comes from the Gospel of Matthew: "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" The programs are produced by the...

 uses a Greene portrait of Jesus in its opening credits.

Greene was influenced by great illustrators/painters like Harry Anderson

Harry Anderson (artist)

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, Hayden Sundbloom (noted for his classic Santa Claus

Santa Claus

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 paintings for Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola

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), and Tom Lovell.

Greene grew up in Michigan

Michigan

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 and attended Chicago’s American Academy of Art

American Academy of Art

The American Academy of Art is a professional, accredited fine arts school located in downtown Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1923 for the education of both fine and commercial arts students. The school has a tradition of top art education with exceptional students being awarded the academy's...

. In his early years he did painting and illustrations for Christianity Today

Christianity Today

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, Tyndale House

Tyndale House

Tyndale House is a publisher founded in 1962 by Kenneth N. Taylor, in order to publish his paraphrase of the Epistles, which he had composed while commuting to work at Moody Press in Chicago. The book appeared under the title Living Letters, and received a television endorsement from Billy Graham...

, Focus on the Family

Focus on the Family

Focus on the Family is an American evangelical Christian tax-exempt non-profit organization founded in 1977 by psychologist James Dobson, and is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Focus on the Family is one of a number of evangelical parachurch organizations that rose to prominence in the 1980s...

, National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation

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, and NASA

NASA

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The painting “Family of God” hangs prominently at the Loma Linda University Medical Center

Loma Linda University Medical Center

Loma Linda University Medical Center is a teaching hospital on the campus of Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California, United States. The medical center serves as a level I trauma center for San Bernardino County and the rest of the Inland Empire. It is one of two closest trauma centers for...

 and the painting “Chief of the Medical Staff” hangs in Florida Hospital Orlando

Florida Hospital Orlando

Located in Orlando, Florida, Florida Hospital treats over 32,000 inpatients and 53,600 outpatients annually. This 900+ bed, acute-care community hospital also serves as a major tertiary facility for much of the Southeast...

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In 1999, the Pacific Union College

Pacific Union College

Pacific Union College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Angwin, California, United States. It is the only four-year college in Napa County, California....

's Rasmussen Art Gallery held a Nathan Greene exhibition titled “Portraits of Jesus”.

In 2009, Greene was commissioned to create the “I Was Hungry” painting for the Versacare Corporation.

External links

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