- Ht: 6.25" Width: 4.5"
- Base: 5.5"x5.5"

A native Oregonian, Richard has enjoyed a career as an exhibiting artist and as Dean of the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in New York and as a Professor of Painting at the University of Texas at Austin. Since the early 1990's Richard has maintained a studio in Oregon and in 2011 he returned to live in his hometown of Dayton. Currently he is working full time in the studio. Richard Thompson's works are included in permanent collections in the United States and abroad. These include the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Gund Collection in Boston, the Portland Art Museum, the Goode Collection in Washington, D. C. and the Edinburg Museum of Modern Art in Scotland.

His art has been exhibited at several cultural institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (two-time Whitney Biennial artist) and