Richard Bosman

Richard Bosman (born 1944) is an American artist, educator, and illustrator. Bosman is best known for his paintings and prints. His play a role is often aligned to crime, adventure, and mistake narratives; rural Americana; and nature and domestic themes. He is associated with the Neo-expressionist doings of the late 1970s and in advance 1980s. Bosman was a aficionado of Colab, the New York artist collective founded in 1977, and participated in the group's influential, “Times Square Show” (1980).

Bosman's to come paintings and prints drew upon pop culture representations of use foul language and romance, including pulp fiction collection illustration. More recently he has created woodcuts depicting turbulent seascapes, volcanoes, Adirondack scenes and extra imagery, displaying what New York Times critic Roberta Smith called a “penchant for parody-homage” toward his subjects. Writing in the Times, Smith stated: “Mr. Bosman's luxuriant, dashed-off brushwork brings a mood at subsequent to antic and powerful to expanses of trees, water and wood grain and staring deer, both bustling and stuffed.” He is flourishing and enthusiastic in the Hudson Valley of New York State.