Ken Marlow (born 1960) was an American realist painter known for his precisionist still life paintings and portraiture.
[1] He was born in the U.S. state of Texas and raised in an Air Force family in Mississippi, Dayton, Ohio, and Washington D.C.
He studied painting with artists Danni Dawson and the late world renowned portraitist, Nelson Shanks and received a BA degree in art history from Yale University.
Marlow cites Shanks as well as Burton Silverman, Jean-Simeon Chardin, Jan van Huysum,Giorgio Morandi and sculptor Bruno Luchesi as influences.
A Go Fund Me page was set up to raise money to enable him to employ therapy to in order for him to paint proficiently once again.