Richard Thomas Davis
Canadian
Richard Thomas Davis was born in Middletown, New York in 1947. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1965 – 1966. Davis’s scrupulously painted views (whether of landscape, cityscape, human-scape or object-scape) are offered as ruminations upon that which will not be still, but now is still. It is as if he has withdrawn the air from his paintings. And consequently, his paintings which, now evacuated, have moved from studies of those things inhabiting the world to a new status as icons of the moment. Davis’s iconic stillness is not the iconic stillness of religious devotion or transporting awe. Rather, his paintings offer modalities of a contemporary devotion—to objects, faces, cars, buildings and the residual landscape. (excerpt from Gary Michael Daults exhibition introduction, 2011).
Awards
| 2013 | Winner of Kingston Portrait Prize for “Basement Self Portrait,” Kingston, ON |
| 2011 | Inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (R.C.A.) |
| Kingston Portrait Prize People’s Choice Award, Kingston Prize, for ‘Aladdin,’ Kingston, ON | |
| 1993 | Sponsor’s Prize, 2nd Sapporo International Print Biennale for “Landmarks” |
Notable Public & Private Collections
| Acadia University Collection, Wolfville, NS |
| Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS |
| BC Provincial Collection, Victoria, BC |
| Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
| Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC |
| Dr. Richard and Jalene Davidson, Chiago, IL |
| The Murray Collection, Scranton, PA |
| Nova Scotia Art Bank Collection, Halifax, NS |
| The Seavest Collection, New York, NY |
| Stanton Armour, Lake Forest, IL |
| Toronto Dominion Bank, Vancouver, BC and Toronto, ON |
| Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2014 | Kingston Portrait Prize Competition/Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto |
| 2011 | Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON |
| 1996 | Gerold Wunderlich & Co., New York, NY |
| 1990 | Gerold Wunderlich & Co., New York, NY |
| 1988 | St. Francis Xavier University Art Gallery, Antigonish, NS |
| 1982-86 | Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
| 1979 | Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
| 1975 | Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
Group Exhibitions
| 2015 | Art Toronto, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON |
| 2014 | Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS |
| 2010-14 | Art Toronto, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON |
| 2003 | Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2001 | Gerold Peters Gallery, New York, NY |
| J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2000 | Forum Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1998 | Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY |
| van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 1995 | Winegrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL |
| 1993 | 2nd Sapporo International Print Biennale, Sapporo, Japan |
| 1990-92 | Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint MI; Naples, FL; Knoxville, TN |
| 1989 | Gerold Wunderlich & Co. Inc, New York, NY |
| 1986-87 | Wunderlich & Co. Inc., New York, NY |
Education
| 1956-66 | Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, PA |
