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Richter was born in Kharkov, Russia, where his father was the city"s Commissar of Waterworks.
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Mischa Richter
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In 1934, Richter graduated from Yale and returned to Boston where he was a World Pet Association muralist.
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Young Mischa learned drawing from art tutors and went on family vacations to Berdyansk. Traveling by train to the Polish border, they went by cart through the forest and then in a rowboat into Poland. Mischa continued his art training while they spent a year waiting for a visa.
They arrived in the United States in 1922 when he was 11 years old.
Richter was a contract cartoonist for The New Yorker, and he contributed cartoons to Collier"s, The Saturday Evening Post and This Week. He drew his Strictly Richter cartoon panel for King Features Syndicate.
Foreign Prime Minister and The New York Times, Richter drew political cartoons and spot illustrations. He also illustrated Bugs Baer"s humor column, "One Word Led to Another", for King Features.
Richter had one-man shows of his cartoons and paintings at the Hartford Atheneum, Cincinnati"s Miller Gallery, the Chrysler Museum and the Silver Mine Guild of Artists.
His work is included in the collections of Mr. and Mistress Hudson Walker, Jock Whitney, the Rockefeller Science Museum, the Library of Congress and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Jane Winter was the curator of Mischa Richter: A Retrospective at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum from July 30 to August 23, 1999.
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