"Potatoes & Fruit 2" is an original oil pastel drawing on paper by Tom Shelton. The artist signed the piece lower right. The artist says: 

“Potatoes and fruit are pictured showing the progression left to right as one color is added - the six primaries and secondaries, therefore six steps. The sequence of colors is shown across the top margin.”

30 1/2" x 30" art
33 5/8" x 33 5/8" frame

Tom Shelton graduated with a B.S. in Botany from the University of Cincinnati in 1964 and spent three semesters at the University of Michigan majoring in Forestry from 1964-1965. In 1972 Shelton completed the graduate art program at Eastern Michigan University in which he received an M.F.A. in painting. Shelton’s artworks are included in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, The Allen Museum of Art at Oberlin College in Ohio, and the International Headquarters of Fiserv in Milwaukee.