Richard J. Watson

The Known Soldier: abstract painting w/ found objects, photographs, Black figure

2021

Please contact me with zip code for precise shipping rates. "Enough Said Already" is a large acrylic collage painting with photograph portraits integrated into it, as well as ticket stubs, and text. It includes imagery that references African American history...

"Southern Breezes" is an acrylic painting with photograph portraits and a number of found objects integrated into the painting including lace, decorative objects, and printed imagery referencing African American history. This painting "collects fragments from the artist's everyday life -- discarded objects found on the streets of Philadelphia that are saved and later repurposed to germinate an idea." Signed by the artist. No need for framing - all hanging hardware included and ready to install on your wall. "Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...

"Pearl's World" is a large acrylic painting with a photograph portrait and a number of found objects integrated into the painting, including pearls, metal pins, tickets, and text. Th...

"In The Nick Of Time" is an abstract collage / painting created from acrylic and found objects on leather mounted on round MDF panel. The work itself is 20" diameter, framed to 23" diameter in a wide, dark brown round wooden frame with two bronze painted rings. It includes several photograph of figures. It is signed and dated along the lower edge. PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022. "Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements of 'real life' collaged and collapsed, as dreams are prone to do. If connections are made, all the better. I feel that life should remind us of our dreams." - Richard J. Watson Richard J. Watson is an icon in the Philadelphia art world. Much of his work relates to his experiences as a Black African American man. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1968), has taught at his alma mater, and has served in the Exhibitions Department at the African American Museum in Philadelphia since the 1980s. He has been exhibiting his work for decades, and has an extensive bibliography. His work is held in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Uniworld Corporation; Sony; the Federal Reserve Bank; the City of Philadelphia; Sprint; the Church of the Advocate; the poet Dr. Sonia Sanchez; and the Woodmere Museum...

A unique contemporary abstract expressionist painting with collaged found object elements, including a torn page from Robinson Crusoe, vintage stamps, and old letters by Bay Area art...

Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Marblemanandfaith' by Stanley Boxer, 1991. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 8 x 4 in. / Frame: 9 x 4.5 x 2...

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Large-scale abstracted assemblage/mixed media of the artist's materials and partially finished works by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957...