RICHARD SHEEHAN bio
B O R N I N B O S T O N , 1 9 5 3
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E D U C A T I O N
1977 Yale University, New Haven, CT, MFA Degree
1975 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, MFA Degree
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2010 Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
1991 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Shasta College, Redding, CA
1989 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Wilhelm Gallery, Houston, TX
1986 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1986 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1984 Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1982 Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1978 Connecticut College, New London, CT
1979 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2014 Sight Specific, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, curated by George Nick
2013 Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Small Works, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 De Corova Museum and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, MA
2003 Landscapes Seen and Imagined: Sense of Place, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1996 The Future of the Past: Fifteen Contemporary Realists Paint Boston, The Boston
Atheneaum, Boston, MA
1996 Illustrious History, 1871 – present, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
and Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 After 25 Years, A New Beginning, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 America from the Driver’s Seat, Museum of our National Heritage, Lexington, MA
1991 Boston Art Dealer’s Association: Selections, Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
1990 37 Painters and Sculptors: On View, ABC/Capitol Cities, Inc., New York, NY
1990 Diverse Contemporary Landscape, One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA
1990 Selected Acquisitions and Recent Work, Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 The Landscape Observed, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
1989 Landscape, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1988 Artists See Nature, College of DuPage, Glen Ellen, IL
1988 Land/City Scape, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1988 New Talent Revisited, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 The Contemporary Romantic Landscape, Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Bridges, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1986 Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 Faculty and Alumni Exhibition, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1985 A Sense of Place, Faneuil Gallery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
1984 The Urban Landscape, Wilhelm Gallery, Houston, TX
1984 Eight Painters at Harvard, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA
1984 Urban Visions/Countryside Views, University Galleries, University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH
1984 New England Landscape, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
1983 Contemporary Realist Paintings, A Selection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1983 On Paper, Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston
1982 Herbert W. Plimpton Collection of Realist Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA
1982 Local Visions: The Urban Environs, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1980 New England Realists, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
1979 American Realist Painters, Marilyn pearl Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Art of the State, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1977 New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S
Wayne Anderson, Boston, MA
Beal & Company, Boston, MA
Boston City Hospital
Cambrian Capital, Manchester, MA
Chase Manhattan Bank
Consolidated Freightways, San Francisco, CA
Cooper & Lybrand, Boston, MA
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Gadsby & Hannah, Boston, MA
The Gund Collection, Cambridge, MA
Acadia Wells Fargo Insurance, New York, NY
Montgomery Securities, San Francisco, CA
Morrison-Foerster, San Francisco, CA
Northwestern National Bank, St. Paul, MN
Stephen & Susan Paine Collection
Paine-Webber Group
Pernod Ricard USA, Purchase, NY
Robertson, Colman & Stephens, San Francisco, CA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Hurst, Rothenberg & Co., San Francisco, CA
Shearson Lehmann Brothers
Ernst & Gail von Metzsch, Manchester, MA
Thomas Weisel Partners, San Francisco, CA
Wellington Management Company, Boston, MA
Merrill Lynch, San Francisco, CA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
V I S I T I N G A R T I S T / L E C T U R E R
1995 Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
1994 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1992 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1989 Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT
1989 Boston University
1989 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
1988 Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT
1988 San Francisco Art Institute
1988 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1988 Ox Bow, Sagatuck, MI
1987 University of California, Davis
1987 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1986 Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT
1985 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (Saltzman Visiting Lecturer)
1984 Yale University, New Haven, CT
1984 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1983 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1982 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1982 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1981 Yale University, New Haven, CT
1978 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
A W A R D S
1979 Fellowship Grant, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
1977 Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Memorial Scholarship, Yale University
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
Articles:
Cate McQuaid, Richard Sheehan, 1953-2006 (review), The Boston Globe, May 19, 2010
June Wulff, Urban Tales, The Boston Globe, May 11, 2010
Joanna Fink, Richard Sheehan: 1953-2006, exhibition essay, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, May
2010
Bryan Marquand, Richard Sheehan, His Paintings Captured Beauty of
Boston’s Landscapes, Boston Sunday Globe, August 27, 2006
Kenneth Baker, Art World Loses Bright Light with Death of Richard Sheehan, San Francisco
Chronicle, August 22, 2006
Cate McQuaid, Dancing Dishes, Rocking Horse Winners, Affable Animals, The Boston Globe,
April 25, 1996
Cate McQuaid, Natural Deceptions; Rejoicing Stars, The Boston Globe, May 2, 1996
Christine Temin, Critic’s Tips: Exhibits, City Landscape, The Boston Globe, February
16, 1989
Christine Temin, Perspectives: Landscapes Thrive on Newbury, The Boston Globe, February
16, 1989
Katie Brown, Corporate Art Collectors Prefer to View the Pictures Rather Than the Numbers,
Focus on Investing in Art, San Francisco Business Times, April 10, 1989
Nancy Stapen, ART: Abstract Dominates Sheehan Show, The Boston Herald, March 5, 1989
Christine Temin, Perspectives: Revisiting New Talent, The Boston Globe, April 21, 1988
Painting on Location: A Survey of Outdoor Painters, American Artist, October 1988
Nancy Grimes, Facts of Life, ARTnews, December 1988
Alan G. Artner, ART: Artist Turns Nondescript into Vivid Images, Chicago Tribune, February 5,
1988
Artweek, San Jose, Ca, March 14, 1987
Kenneth Baker, GALLERIES: Colorful, Somber Landscapes, San Francisco Chronicle, March
19, 1987
R.B., New York Reviews: Richard Sheehan, ARTnews, September 1986
Patricia C. Johnson, Art: The Trite Stuff, Houston Chronicle, June 24, 1984
Christine Temin, A Landscape Painter for All Seasons, The Boston Globe, February 3, 1983
Sarah McFaddden, Report from Boston, Art in America, May 1983
Mark Zebriskie, Richard Sheehan: Painting Scenes of Cities, Fields, The Patriot
Ledger, August 1982
Thomas Albright, From Glittery Baubles to the Undersides of Freeways, San
Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 1982
Christine Temin, Richard Sheehan’s Urban Romance, The Boston Globe, February 19, 1981
Jane Holtz Kay, Cityscapes, The Boston Globe Magazine, December 27, 1981
Pamela Allara, Boston: Shedding it’s Inferiority Complex, ARTnews, November 1979
Robert Taylor, Review: New Talent, The Boston Sunday Globe, June 12, 1977
Catalogues:
Vivian K. Spiro, The Future of the Past: Fifteen Contemporary Artists Paint Boston, The Boston
Atheneaum, Boston, MA, 1996
Illustrious History, 1871 – Present, Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
and Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1996
37 Painters and Sculptors: On View, Capital Cities/ABC, New York, NY, 1990
Kathy Halbreich, Works by Boston Area Artists, A Private Vision: Contemporary Art From the
Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1982
Michael J. Wentworth, Richard Sheehan, Recent Paintings, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1980