'Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary, 1982' by Richard Schloss, Ventura Art Museum, Large Oil, University of California Santa Barbara

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Initialed lower right, 'R. S.' for Richard Schloss (American, born 1953) and dated 1982; additionally signed and dated, verso.

A … Read more Initialed lower right, 'R. S.' for Richard Schloss (American, born 1953) and dated 1982; additionally signed and dated, verso.

A substantial and luminous landscape by this well-listed and exhibited Santa Barbara artist.

Richard Schloss received his Master of Fine Arts in Painting at UCSB in 1979 with a BA in Italian in 1981. In 1980, he spent a year painting in Europe on an award-winning scholarship. In 1992, he was commissioned to paint the diorama for Cartwright Interactions Hall of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Following this, he received numerous commissions to create large artworks for public spaces, including for the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara Historical Museum and The Palo Alto Medical Foundation. In 2015, his work was the subject of a large, one-man show at the Ventura Museum of Art. The artist's work is held in the permanent collections of four California museums: the Santa Barbara Historical Society, the Ridley Tree Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and the Ventura Museum of Art. Additionally, he has been a member of Santa Barbara's Oak Group since its inception in 1986. See less