Mischa Richter  Artist Statement and Resumé

New Yorker magazine art originals by Mischa Richter

Fine Art Poster signed, limited edition by Mischa Richter

  Mischa Richter in 1960

Artist's Statement

When I graduated from Yale school of arts in 1934, I was influenced by Eugene Savage, a muralist who taught us painting and emphasized the earth palette. In the depth of the depression, I painted canvases dealing with unemployment, inspired by Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueros.

Many years as a cartoonist for the New Yorker gave me the opportunity to deal with social issues with humor while retaining hold of good drawing and composition.  In the Fifties and Sixties, I was influenced by Abstract Expressionism and ever since my paintings communicate by formal means.   The laws governing visual art deal with the shape of given areas, arrangements of negative and positive spaces within it, and the colors that enforce the above. Only then does the picture become a picture and not a mere copy of something.

Education

• Born 1910 Kharkov, Russia
• 1929-30 Boston Museum School, Boston, Massachusetts
• Studied with Philip Hale and Harold Zimmerman
• 1930-34 Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut

Professional

• 1935 Works Progress Administration New York, New York
•  Burroughs Newsboy Foundation Mural
• 1941-present, Cartoonist The New Yorker New York, New York
• 1944, Author, This One’s On Me,  McGraw Hill
• 1947-61, Author, Strictly Richter, King’s Features, New York, New York
• Also Published in: The New Masses, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, This Week Magazine (of the Herald Tribune), Esquire, Ken Magazine, PM, Cavalcade, and others. Richter was listed in Advertising Age as among the ten best animated cartoons, is the author of six cartoon books and was chosen Best Cartoonist of the Year twice by the National Cartoonist’s Society.

Solo Exhibitions

• Leonid Kipnis Gallery, Westport Connecticut
• Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut
• Silver Mine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut
• Chrysler Museum
• Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Kipnis Galler, Westport, Connecticut
• Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
• Heineman Gallery, New York, New York
• Bartsch & Chariau Gallery, Munich, Germany
• Provincetown Group Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts

Collections

• Library of Congress
• The University of Ohio
• The Rockefeller Science Foundation
• The Cartoon Museum, Zurich Switzerland
• The Museum of cartoon Art
• Mr. Alf Landon
• Berta Walker
• Mr. J. Whitney, and others...

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