Sam Richardson

Sam Richardson (1934–2013) was an American artist known for small-scale, minimalist landscape sculptures, and for his work as a printmaker.

Richardson was awarded a 1975 Individual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is considered an American Postwar artist.

The Anderson Collection at Stanford University writes of Richardson's legacy, [his] "small-scaled, finely crafted poetic sculptures influenced a generation of artists and students and helped push the boundaries of landscape art in the West."

Early life and education Richardson was born in Oakland, California. He had a BA and MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts.

Career Early in his career Richardson was the Art Director of the American Craft Council and the Museum of Contemporary Craft.

His works are featured in prominent collections including the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Pomer Institute of Fine Arts in Australia, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, the National Museum of American Art in Washington DC, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. A Very Thick Summer Overcast Extending Inland near Antioch, California, 1969. Smithsonian American Art Museum. It’s a Cool October Evening with a Little Lake at the Base of that Hill, 1969. Smithsonian American Art Museum. It Is Summer and the Tree Waits on Top of That Hill, 1972. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Sierra Snow: Sunrise on East Face, 1974. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Sierra Snow Cover On The North Ridge, 1974. University at Buffalo, NY. Fleet, 2005.