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William Trost Richards - From Paradise to Purgatory, Newport

From Paradise to Purgatory, Newport (1878)

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
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The Artist died in 1905 so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries where the copyright term is the Artist's life plus 70 years or fewer. It is in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before Jan 1, 1926
William Trost Richards

William Trost Richards was an American landscape artist. He was associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement.

William Trost Richards was born on 14 November 1833 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1846 and 1847, he attended the local Central High School. Between 1850 and 1855, he studied part-time with the German artist Paul Weber, while working as designer and illustrator of ornamental metalwork. Richards's first public exhibit was part of an exhibition in New Bedford, Massachusetts, organized by artist Albert Bierstadt in 1858.

In 1862, he was elected honorary member of the National Academy of Design and was elected as an Academician in 1871. In 1863, he became a member of the Association for the Advancement of Truth in Art. In 1866, he departed for Europe for one year. Upon his return and for the following six years, he spent the summers on the East Coast.

In the 1870s, he produced many acclaimed watercolor views of the White Mountains, several of which are now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Richards exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1861 to 1899, and at the Brooklyn Art Association from 1863 to 1885. He was elected a full member of the National Academy in 1871.

In 1881, he built a house in Jamestown, Rhode Island, where he lived and worked for the remainder of his life. He died on April 17, 1905, in Newport, Rhode Island.

Richards rejected the romanticized and stylized approach of other Hudson River painters and instead insisted on meticulous factual renderings. His views of the White Mountains are almost photographic in their realism. In later years, Richards painted almost exclusively marine watercolors.

His works are featured today in many important American museums, including the National Gallery, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fogg Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Berkshire Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

His daughter Anna Richards Brewster also became a painter.

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Rock Bound Coast

Rock Bound Coast (1885)

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Sea and Cliffs

Sea and Cliffs (1892)

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Rocky Coastline, Cornwall

Rocky Coastline, Cornwall (1886)

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
Purgatory Cliff

Purgatory Cliff (1876)

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Lake Squam from Red Hill

Lake Squam from Red Hill (1874)

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
Moonlight on Mount Lafayette, New Hampshire

Moonlight on Mount Lafayette, New Hampshire (1873)

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
Lake Squam and the Sandwich Mountains

Lake Squam and the Sandwich Mountains (1872)

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
Breakers

Breakers (1881)

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
Huckleberry Bushes at Matunuck, Rhode Island

Huckleberry Bushes at Matunuck, Rhode Island

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
Atlantic Coast

Atlantic Coast (1898)

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
A Rocky Coast

A Rocky Coast (1877)

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
Looking Westward, Norway (Lake Scene).

Looking Westward, Norway (Lake Scene).

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
British Coastal View (Coast of Cornwall)

British Coastal View (Coast of Cornwall) (circa 1880)

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
Near Land’s End, Cornwall

Near Land’s End, Cornwall (1879)

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
Point Judith

Point Judith (1885)

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905)
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