Richard Brady

Richard Brady was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He studied at the Newark School of Fine Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. He was profoundly influenced by the near decade he spent living, studying, working and traveling in Italy. The Italian experience shaped him as an artist, providing him with a classical education and an intimate knowledge of the Italian tradition. Additionally, he traveled extensively in the Mid East and Asia before returning to the states.
In NYC he immersed himself in printmaking at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking workshop , receiving the Jerome Foundation Fellowship in printmaking. He continued his travels, traversing the United States several times including a seven month sojourn at the Museum of Natural History’s Research Station in Cave Creek Canyon in Portal, Arizona. A naturalist, painting and drawing among the scientists. He currently lives and works in Concord, Massachusetts, birthplace of Emerson and Thoreau, absorbing their writings and the genesis of Luminism in painting.
Richard’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, venues include: The Duxbury Art Complex Museum (Duxbury, Ma.), Museum of the City of New York, Wichita Art Museum, Society of the Four Arts (Palm Beach, Florida), Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio) Forum Gallery (NYC), Capricorn Galleries (Bethesda, Maryland), Loeb Gallery of Contemporary Art (New York University), National Arts Club (NYC), Borstahussan Art Guild (Landskrona, Sweden), Galleria Menghelli(Firenze, Italy), United States information Service in (Milan, Italy). His works are included in numerous private and corporate collections in this country and abroad.
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