Abraham Jacob Richard - the Artist Being Watched While He Paints a Pastoral Scene - Mixed Media on Masonite 1952

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This is a completely delightful work. Essentially a landscape framing a scene of gentle comedy. There is such a lovely, … Read more This is a completely delightful work. Essentially a landscape framing a scene of gentle comedy. There is such a lovely, and lively, spirit to the whole thing. Pastel and oil on board.

Richard is visible in the lower right corner.

Born 1883-1964

Mr. Jacob Richard is winner of the first Goodman Prize at the Art Institute, Chicago, the Springfield State Museum Purchase Prize, the Carter H. Harrison Prize for Encouragement of Local Art and the Chicago Woman's Aid Prize. He also permanently represented in the Vanderpool Gallery, Frank G. Logan Collection and many private collections.

Member of Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, the All Illinois Society of Fine Arts, the Illinois Academy of Arts and Society for Sanity in Art. In Los Angeles he was awarded a fellowship in the Huntington Hartford Foundation, member California Art Club and Hollywood Artists Association.

"Who's Who in American Art" Volume 1938-39.

Measures 33" x 36". See less