Richmond Stubbs Biography

Richmond Louis Stubbs was born October 27, 1943 in Nashville Tennessee. At a very early age, he discovered that he could draw and paint, so he decided that his calling in life was to be an artist. Art has been a part of the Stubbs family for generations, going back to the 18th century painter George Stubbs.

At the age of five he moved with his family to Atlanta, Georgia. There he grew up attending Druid Hills High School, where he received a high school diploma in 1961.

While at the University of Georgia in Athens in 1961, he gained valuable skills in painting and sculpture. In 1965 Richmond left college because, as he states, "there was a difference in philosophy."

Souped Up Cloud In 1965 Mr. Stubbs was part of a three man show at Artists Associates Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. During that time he worked for Sears and Roebuck during the day and made welded steel sculptures in his parent's basement at night. He returned to college in 1966 with two years credit from the University of Tennessee because of his professional status.

He graduated from the University of Tennessee in the summer of 1967 with a major in sculpture and a minor in art history. For the next two years he lived in Oak Ridge, Tennessee making and selling sculpture. In the fall of 1969 he enrolled in the Tulane Graduate School in New Orleans. Spring of 1971 he received an M.F.A. degree from Tulane University. The thesis for the degree was "Seeing Sculpture as Landscape".

Souped -Up- Cloud is an example from this time period. Also during the seventies and early eighties Richmond sculpted large crosses for church sanctuaries, along with several hundred small inlaid crosses. Also during this time he created several small sculptures in steel expressing dance.

In all the decades that followed, dance was a recurring theme in his work. He felt that... "it was important to express my life in both objective and non-objective formats." His idea is that we take in information every moment of every day and out of that collected vision we create abstract art... "When in reality we are creating realistic images arranged in a non-objective format."

One of the most notable shows of the eighties was a juried gift show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His submission, a painting titled In The Deep Wood hung in between a drawing by Alexander Calder and a print by Marc Chagall.

In the Deep Woods In the nineties Mr. Stubbs visited and lived in New Mexico for about six years. He showed in several galleries, most notably The Waxlander-Kadouri Gallery in Santa Fe. He spent his creative energies painting the landscape with watercolor and making sculptures with the following themes: reggae dancers, the Eagliss series, visions from the bird tribe, the cocky cowgirl series, plus the lizard and dragon series.

At the beginning of the new millenium Richmond worked with his friend Jim Mauritsen at the Mauritsen Studio carving bears, eagles, fish and feather bowls. Their gallery was on the side of the road in Ruidoso, New Mexico. He said... "it was the most fun I have had thus far as an artist!" Today Mr. Stubbs is painting with Corel Paint Essentials 2 and enjoying the idea of "infinite color creating at light speed."

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