Richard Maury American, 1935-2020
Richard Maury was born in Washington, D.C. in 1935 and attended school locally at the University of Maryland College Park (1954-55), Corcoran Gallery School (1955-56), and Montgomery Park College (1956-57), before moving to New York to continue studies at the Art Students League (1956-59). Soon thereafter, he traveled to Italy to attend L’Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence (1960-65), and then settled in the ancient city, where he lived and worked for six decades until his passing in 2020.
Paintings by Richard Maury are intimate portrayals of his home and family bathed in a natural light. Maury’s breathtaking figurative and still life paintings brought him widespread acclaim both in the United States and abroad and are as coveted now as they were throughout his lifetime.
In 2007, Richard Maury was awarded the J. Sanford Saltus Award & Medal from the National Academy, New York, NY. Having numerous solo-exhibitions in New York, Washington, London and Italy during his lifetime, Maury is also represented in many public collections including the Arnot Museum (Elmira, NY), Arts Students League (New York, NY), Fogg Museum (Cambridge, MA), Flint Museum of Art (Detroit, MI), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), New Britain Museum of Art (CT), and Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
