Chris Wagner

Color of Night, Original Painting

2016

South Rim, Grand Canyon. Artist sighed lower right. About artist: Richard H. Tashjian Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. in 1926, Richard served in the U.S.N.R. World War II 1944-46 as a photographer and later graduated from the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, 1950. He studied design under Prof. Gyorgy Kepes at M.I.T. School of Visual Design Architectural Center Cambridge, MA. Richard’s talents resulted in a successful career in advertising art, where he worked as a commercial artist and art director for various distinguished ad agencies throughout the Boston area. For several years, he owned and operated an art studio and gallery in Watertown, MA. While continuing to depict nature in his harmonious style that utilizes layers of color. He brings a passion for the natural world and international perspective to his paintings. His brush has rendered scenes in the Crimea and the south of France. Having moved to Santa Fe New Mexico recently he has already made canyons, mesas and skies of the Southwest his own. EDUCATION: Museum School  of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. 1950 MILITARY: World War II, U.S. Naval Reserve 1944-46 SELECTED AWARDS: A.S.A. Ara S. Boyan Award in Humanities                        1975 for the contribution to Living Arts-Bromall, PA. Stone & Webster Arts Festival, Boston, MA.                               1978 First Prize-Watercolor Medium                                        1979 First Prize-Graphic Prints Visiting Artist Honored Medal                                                     1990 100th Anniversary of Hovhaness Aivasofski July 22, 1990, Theodosia Crimea Russia SELECTED One Man Shows: Brockton Art Fuller Memorial Museum Brockton, MA       1972 Secretary of State Office-Boston, MA State House         1975 Newton Public Library Newton, MA                                 1978 AGBU Art Gallery New York                                           1979 Armenian Library and Museum of America                      1990 Watertown, MA. Editions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.                                     1997 Grunthal Gallery, Taos, NM.                                            1999 Editions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.                                     2002 Paxton McCall Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.                           2002 Wilder Nightingale fine Art, Taos, NM.                             2002 Editions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.                                      2006 PUBLICATIONS: Ararat Quarterly Issue No. 53 AGBU NY.                          1970 The American Review...

READY TO HANG with the edges painted. A beautiful modern floral painting, a wild flower field with sunflowers, made with professional varnished acrylics and Amsterdam acrylic sprays ...