Image description

Richard A. Richards, Half Dome Meadow, oil paint, oil pastel on paper, 30 x 22, signed.

Artist

Richard A. Richards, born in Ogden, Utah in 1959, studied art first as a young boy from his grandfather, a sign painter and self-taught artist, then in secondary school with Robert Call, and at the University of Utah with Paul Davis. He graduated with a degree in philosophy, but pursued a career in ballet, dancing with Pacific Ballet Theatre, Norwegian National Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders and Sacramento Ballet. During this time he was represented by galleries in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Washington D.C., and he exhibited paintings through the U.S. State Department's Arts-in-Embassies program, and as part of the Artist-in-Residence program at Yosemite National Park. In 1999, he received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and has since been teaching philosophy at the University of Alabama. -----Yosemite National Park Artist-in-Residence ------richardarichards.net