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Richard Earl Thompson

Richard Earl Thompson (1914 - 1991) was active/lived in Illinois, Wisconsin.  Richard Thompson is known for Impressionist landscape and figure painting.

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Richard Earl Thompson was an American impressionist, much influenced by the French school, and a highly successful illustrator. He was a child prodigy at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where he was a student of Frederick Grant. After that, he attended the Chicago Art Institute with Louis Ritman, who was a strong influence on his drawing, color, and composition skills.

To earn a living, he chose a career in commercial art, doing many back covers of the Saturday Evening Post, especially while working with Haddon Sundbloom. Thompson also did World War II War bond Posters.

In 1959, with commercial art being replaced by photography, he turned to a full-time career in fine art and divided his life between the woods of Wisconsin and the shores of the Florida Keys with his wife Mary Munn.

Of his career beginning in the late 1950s, Thompson created more than 1500 oil paintings.  In his Chicago Tribune obituary, he was quoted as h   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7053 characters.]  Artist bio

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Autumn Light

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Late-Afternoon, Fall , 1980

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"Carvers Rock", 1979

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Otter Point, Maine , 1984

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Only in Autumn , 1981

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La Ocisidao Cordoba

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Lot 375
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