Richard T. Scott (born 1980) is an American New Enlightenment painter and writer living and working between the Hudson Valley, New York and Savannah, Georgia, where he teaches at the

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. His paintings are in the permanent collections of museums in North America, Europe, and Asia. He was formerly a member of the

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, a group of artists and illustrators contracted to design coins and Congressional Medals for the

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Biography

Scott pursued a BFA in painting in the

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at the

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, followed by an MFA in painting from the

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. After graduation he worked for two years as a painter for

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, then three years as a studio assistant to

Odd Nerdrum Odd Nerdrum (born 8 April 1944) is a Norwegian Figurative art, figurative painting, painter. A controversial figure in Norway, he is known for his anti-modernist stance. Themes and style in Nerdrum's work reference anecdote and narrative. Primar ...

in Norway and Paris, France. Scott worked for the United States Mint from 2014-2018.

Art career

Scott is known for his classically influenced history paintings and narrative portraits. His current body of work explores the historical origins and legacy of systemic and social discrimination as well as gun violence in American Culture. The first major piece in the series "When the Man Comes Around" is in the permanent collection of the

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. His largest work to date, "Hearts of Men" was unveiled at Paul Booth Gallery in New York City August 2016. His second major work "New Amsterdam", which traces the legacy of slavery in America from the Dutch settlers to mass incarceration, was unveiled at Spalding Nix Fine Art in Atlanta, GA in February 2018. Donald Kuspit has said that "Adam Miller, David Molesky and Richard T. Scott are what I have called New Old Masters; that is, they use Old Master styles to mediate modern reality and to give emotional and cognitive depth to events that the mass media would treat superficially (one more momentarily hot news story, here today, gone tomorrow)". Scott is a contributing author to The Nerdrum School, a collection of paintings and essays by students of

. Scott is a proponent of an alternative philosophical superstructure for figurative painting, which he calls a Post-contemporary paradigm, separate from that of the

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world. Scott has designed coins for the United States Mint: notably, the 2016 Fort Moultrie quarter. as well as the private American Mint. Richard Scott was also the first to design an African American Liberty for the U.S. Mint's 2015 High Relief coin. In 2010, Scott told the New York Times that Facebook was censoring classical paintings of nudes, which had been deleted from the accounts of many painters as well as established institutions such as the New York Academy of Art. Scott's work was included the book ''Kitsch More than Art''. itsch: More than ArtSchibsted Forlag, September 30, 201

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Collections

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, * The Museu Europeu d'Art Modern, Barcelona * The Museum of Contemporary Art Sicily Palazzo Riso *

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* Adoro Museum of Art, Philippines

References

External links

official websiteOnline exhibition of Richard T. Scott
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Richard T. 1980 births Living people 20th-century American painters 21st-century American painters American male painters American romantic painters Artists from Georgia (U.S. state) Painters from New York City Baroque painters Magic realist artists New York Academy of Art alumni 20th-century American male artists Students of Odd Nerdrum