in memoriam
Kharkov, Russia, 1910 - Provincetown, Mass., USA, March 23, 2001Boston Globe obituary NYT obituary
"The laws which govern visual art deal with: the shape of given areas, arrangements of negative and positive spaces within it, and the colors which reinforce such qualities. Only with these qualities do my paintings speak as something more than a mere copy or simple representation." - MISCHA RICHTER
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mischa
richter is best known as a cartoon artist at The
New Yorker Magazine. His magazine art has additionally appeared in
This One's On Me, The New Masses, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, This Week
Magazine, Esquire, Ken Magazine, Penthouse Magazine, and PM.
He
received a BA from the Boston Museum School and a MFA from Yale University. He
worked as a WPA artist in the 1930's. His solo exhibitions include shows
at: Provincetown Group Gallery, Cape Museum of Fine Arts in Dennis, Massachusetts,
Leonid Kipnis Gallery in Westport, Connecticut, Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford,
Connecticut, Silver Mine Guild in New Canaan, Connecticut, Chrysler Museum in
New York, Miller Gallery in Cincinnati, Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown,
Massachusetts, Heineman Gallery in New York, and Bartsch & Chariau Gallery in
Munich, Germany. He currently has work the collections of Peter
Kline, J. Whitney, Alf Landon, the Library of Congress, The University of Ohio,
The Rockefeller Science Foundation, The Cartoon Museum, Zurich, and The Museum
of Cartoon Art.
At ninety years of age, Richter's impressive painterly career has spanned decades. He began working alongside Siquieros and Orozco for WPA mural projects in New York and Boston. Richter diverse artistic phases are all driven with an action painter's aesthetic in combination with meditative fields of color, to create an aesthetic where the "laws which govern visual art deal with: the shape of given areas, arrangements of negative and positive spaces within it, and the colors which reinforce such qualities." The body of watercolor collages shown by Gallery Bershad was begun in the 1970's and includes several images which have never been previously viewed.
EDUCATION
1929-1930 Boston
Museum School Boston, Massachusetts
Studied with Philip Hale and Harold Zimmerman
1930-34 Yale School of Fine Arts New Haven Connecticut
COMMISSIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
1935 Works
Progress Administration New York, New York
Burroughs Newsboy Foundation Mural Boston, Massachusetts
1941-present The New Yorker Magazine New York, New York - Cartoon
Artist
1944 This One’s On Me, Published by McGraw Hill
1947-61 Strictly Richter, New York, New York, Published
by King’s Features
Various Years The New Masses, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, This Week Magazine (A Herald Tribune Publication), Esquire, Ken Magazine, PM, Cavalcade, and others.
Richter was listed in Advertising Age as among the ten best animated cartoons.
He is the author of six cartoon books and he has been nominated twice by the National Cartoonist’s Society as Best Cartoonist of the Year.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Provincetown Group Gallery Provincetown, Massachusetts
Cape Museum of Fine Arts Dennis, Massachusetts
Leonid Kipnis Gallery Westport Connecticut
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut
Silver Mine Guild New Canaan, Connecticut
Chrysler Museum New York, New York
Miller Gallery Cincinnati, Ohio
Kipnis Gallery Westport, Connecticut
Berta Walker Gallery Provincetown, Massachusetts
Heineman Gallery New York, New York
Bartsch & Chariau Gallery Munich, Germany
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Library of Congress Peter Kline
The University of Ohio Mr. Alf Landon
The Rockefeller Science Foundation Mr. J. Whitney
The Cartoon Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
The Museum of Cartoon Art
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