Richard Vincent West

Background

West, Richard Vincent was born on November 26, 1934 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Jan Josef and Katherine Frieda (Mayer) Vyslouzil. came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1947.

Education

Student, University of California at Los Angeles, 1952-1955; student, Music Academy of the West, 1958-1960; Bachelor with highest honors, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1961; postgraduate, Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Vienna, 1961-1962; postgraduate, Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kuenste, Vienna, 1961-1962; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1965.

Career

Curatorial intern, Cleveland Art Museum, 1965-1966; curatorial intern, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1966-1967; curator, Museum Art Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine., 1967-1969; director, Museum Art Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine., 1969-1972; director, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 1973-1982; director, Santa Barbara Museum Art, California, 1983-1991; president, Artmuse Associations, Benicia, California, 1991-1992; director, Newport (Rhode Island) Art Museum, 1992-1994; director, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, since 1995. Member Joint Yugoslav-American Excavations at Sirmium, 1971. Board directors Sacramento Regional Art Council, 1973-1977.

Board overseers Strawbery Banke, since 1993.

Achievements

• Richard Vincent West has been listed as a noteworthy Art museum official by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip

    (Traces the development of the comic strip since its birth...)

  • The Walker Art Building Murals. (Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Occasional Papers. 1.)

    (Bowdoin College Museum of Art.)

  • Circle of Lyon: 7 French Painters of Reality

    (Exhibit catalogue. Catalogue includes artist statements a...)

  • Enkindled Eye: The Paintings of Rockwell Kent : A Retrospective Exhibition
  • Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip by Harvey Robert C. West Richard V. Walker Brian (1999-03-01) Paperback
  • "An enkindled eye": The paintings of Rockwell Kent, a retrospective exhibition

Membership

Founding member New England Community Museum Consortium. Active United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, since 1989. Board directors Seattle Academy Fine Art, since 2004.

Served with United States Navy, 1956-1957. Member Association Art Museum Directors, American Association Museum, College Art Association, International Council Museum, Western Association Art Museum (president 1975-1978), California Association Museum (board directors 1980-1982, vice president 1986-1991), Rotary.

Connections

1 child, Jessica Katherine.

Father:

Jan Josef Vyslouzil

Mother:

Katherine Frieda (Mayer) Vyslouzil

child:

Jessica Katherine West