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When
he was 19, Paul Rickert was drafted and sent to Vietnam as a combat
artist. Told to “experience the war and paint whatever reaction
he had to it,” Rickert now focuses on “beauty, the quietness…a
kind of romantic transcendence” that can be found in nature.
Following his return
from Vietnam, Rickert attended the Art Center College of Design in
Pasadena and studied privately with artist Nelson Shanks. He began
winning top awards in national juried exhibitions before he graduated
which included the Gold Medal of Honor from the Allied Artists of
America and the Edgar Whitney Award from the American Watercolor Society.
Rickert’s paintings
are an integral part of numerous private and corporate collections.
Among those are the Mellong Bank, New England Mutual Life, Manufacturers
Hanover, Bell Atlantic, J.B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky,
and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine.
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Jariaso Canyon
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Clouds Over Truchas
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Las Trampas
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Out of Truchas
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