RICHARD SCHMID
BORN
Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
American Academy of Art
AWARDS & HONORS
Gold Medal, American Watercolor Society
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Frye Museum, Seattle, WN
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO
Palette & Chisel Academy, Chicago, IL
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Alla Prima
Richard Schmid Paints Figures
Richard Schmid Paints Landscapes
REPRESENTED BY
West Wind Fine Art, Manchester, VT
Black Girl
Richard Schmid
16" x 20" Oil
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Apart from their metaphorical intent, these few excerpted words (forgive me) from the Bible demonstrate the remarkable power of color when used only as words. What images in our minds they create! Imagine the voice we have with our ability to use actual color!
Nature is the supreme colorist, and She loves to play with it in every possible way- a good thing for us- imagine what it would be like if we humans were all the same color. What a Bore! (What would all the bigots do?) How splendid that She has given us, her creatures, such extraordinary and diverse pigmentation. We should rejoice that we are each different, each of us one of Her little color masterpieces. How lucky we are as painters to have the tools to portray one of Her little color masterpieces. How lucky we are as painters to have the tools to portray another soul…"fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners."
"I am black but comely….Behold, thou art fair; thou hast dove eyes…let me see thy countenance…Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet…My beloved is white and ruddy…Thou art beautiful O my love…Thine head upon thee is Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple… Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee." - from The Song of Soloman
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