Richard Earl Thompson

Richard Earl Thompson (September 26, 1914 – August 6, 1991) was a 20th-century American Impressionist painter who began his career as a poster illustrator in Chicago, Illinois. In 1959, he broke away from a career as a classified ad illustrator, which began in 1933, to pursue Impressionist painting. He was a prolific painter, often compared stylistically to Monet, and art critics enormously Thompson was a master of color and light. "Thompson's good appreciation for flora and fauna is observed in his landscapes that represent a tapering off in era that has both a desirability of chronicles and eternity. The artiste found beauty all around him; It was as easily reached as his favorite fishing hole or a neighbor's backyard. In these simple nevertheless intimate places, Thompson reminded others to accept time to stop and take another look."