About
Richard T Scott is a Contemporary History Painter working in New York. A Georgia native, his work explores the complex tensions of American identity through the transcendental perspectives in Buddhist and Humanist philosophies. Known for his mastery of light and color, his portraits, interiors, and large scale compositions have exhibited across North America and Europe: Le Grand Palais in Paris, Palazzo Cini in Venice, Museu Europeu d'Art Modern in Barcelona, the Museum of New Art in Detroit, and are preserved in permanent collections worldwide such as the The New Britain Museum of American Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, MEAM, MACS, Musée Alice d'Étoiles, Adoro Museum Philippines, former British Arts Minister Alan Howarth of Newport, Philip Anschutz and Sea Island Resort, President Bill Clinton, Mack Wilbourn, and Robert C. Kennedy PhD. Among many honors he has received, Richard has designed coins and congressional medals for the United States Mint, including the 2016 Fort Moultrie quarter, won first place in the Portrait Society of Atlanta Fall 2023 expo, was selected for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Copyist program in 2006, and was honored as an Associate Living Master by the Art Renewal Center.
Richard has taught painting at the University of Georgia, given lectures and workshops, most notably at the Tyler School of Art, The Florence Academy of Art, The University of Georgia, The Lyme Academy, Laguna College of Art and Design, and the Wethersfield Academy for the Arts.
His interviews, writing, and art have been feature on NPR, PRI, and countless national and international books and publications.
Richard's CV
“Richard T. Scott [is] what I have called the New Old Masters; that is, they use Old Master styles to mediate modern reality and to give emotional and cognitive depth to events that the mass media would treat superficially (one more momentarily hot news story, here today, gone tomorrow)".
- Donald Kuspit, Art Critic.
“Whether it is in his portraits, his compositions, or either still in his interiors, Richard T. Scott always tries to produce, on his spectators, a certain effect of strangeness, or at least, something like a feeling of longing. That's why, maybe, his compositions are populated for the greater part with mirrors in which appear, not simply beings just like those who face us - but of real spectres having the function to destabilize our glance while giving the fourth dimension for us to see” - by Frédéric Charles Baitinger, Critic, Artension