The Spirit of Glen Wild, white bisque, modeled in 1998
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Selected Bibliographyold, Richard W.i
Arnold, Richard W. Documents of the AIDS work, 1984-1998: A Collection of Paintings and Drawings. Blurb Books, 2018. Presents pages from sketch diaries kept during the AIDS years and other artworks from an HIV survivor looking back on his own life during the epidemic in New York City and the Hudson Valley.
Arnold, Richard W. The Giant Terracotta Chess Set, designed for the Garden of Leon Levy and Shelby White. Blurb Books, 2018.
Arnold, Richard W. Life Class: Encounters of 1, 3, 5 and 10 Minutes Duration with Some Memorable Models: Drawings in Ink Line. Blurb Books, 2018. Presents timed drawings from the nude figure in simple (out)lines with pen and ink. Drawings are from a broad span of years, 1986-2018. The setting for all of these drawings is the "life class", a gathering of students drawing under the supervision of a master from a live nude model, a centuries old tradition, and still practiced today.
Arnold, Richard W. Life Class Two: More timed takes and retakes of my favorite models: drawings in ink, graphite and chalk. Blurb Books, 2018. Selected drawings from 1969-2018.
Baum, Roger. "Neoclassical Conjury: In Which a Fondness for the Very Particular has Outweighed the Fashionable." House & Garden 157 (Jan. 1985): 102-109. An appreciative walking tour of Lincoln Kirstein's apartments at 128 E. 19th Street, NYC, with photographs of Arnold sculptures in situ.
Chiaramonte, Steven C. A Spellbound Vision: Viewing Asmat Art Through the Eyes of the Western Contemporary Artist. [Exhibition, August 26 - October 12, 2002, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Ethel Wattis Kimball Visual Arts Center, Weber State University]. Ogden, Utah: The University, 2002. An invitational show; included were two bronzes; catalog given a short bio, and artist statement regarding some of the Asmat influenced sculpture.
The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands. Annual Candlelight House Tour: Don Herron's Newburgh, Sunday, December 8th, 2013. Newburgh, NY: The Society, 2013. Illustrated by Rich Arnold with sixteen sketches of historic buildings
Isaacs, Leigh. "Fired Up: Richard Arnold Sculptures Have Mass Appeal." Huguenot Herald New Paltz, NY (June 11, 1992): 24. A review of the solo show at the Donskoj Gallery in Kingston.
Lorenz, Carol Ann. Mastery in Clay: Indigenous Pottery of Papua New Guinea in the Richard W. Arnold Collection. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University, Longyear Museum, 2013. Fifty some clay bowls and pots from the nineteenth century to the present day, collected over a twelve year period.
"On View Along the River's Edge." [Review of Baroque Visions at the ArtFull Eye Gallery] Time Off Magazine, Princeton Packet (3 June 1987):17-18.
Staub, Jack. Private Edens: Beautiful Country Gardens. Photographs by Rob Cardillo. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2013. See pp. 170, 172(phot.) Chess set in situ.
Verburg, Carol. Silent Night, Violent Night: A Cory Goodwin Mystery. Boom Books, 2011. Christmas-light garlands (illustrations) by Richard Arnold.
Who's Who in the World, 27th Edition; Who's Who in America, 63rd, 64th Editions
Selected Collections
Lincoln Kirstein Collection, New York, NY / Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection, Lewisboro, NY / Amitava Bhattacharya / Ankit and Manisha Patel, Sardar Patel Marg, Jaipur, India / Barbara White / David de Roberts / Domenico Sepe, Naples, Italy / JoAnn Verburg / Carol Verburg / Bob Shulman, Winahdin, Cragsmoor, NY / Peter and Lydia Stenzel / Kaycee Benton /Laun and Mary Ann Maurer, Orchard Cottage, Cragsmoor/ Michael Hall Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, NY / Philippe Roques / Candler, Charles, and Johnson, Gary, Collection / Mary Fussell / Gregor Benko / Dr. Stephen Zwirn (Dumbarton Oaks) / Richard Handy / Chuck Bowdish / Dr. Malcolm Nanes, New York, NY. / Tram Combs / Cragsmoor Free Library, Cragsmoor, NY / Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library, Division of Manuscripts and Archives / Leslie Lohman Museum, New York / Govt. Art Museum, Bangalore, India (Chithra Kala Parishath), Eric and Helen Rosenberg, Mamaroneck, NY / Duane Wilder, New York / Jose Rosa, New York
Documentation: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y., Watson Library, Artist's File [and] Research Libraries, New York Public Library, New York, N.Y., Art Division, Vertical File Collection
Miniature figurine, bronze and bone (Raccoon vertebra). Modeled in 1998; then cast in 2002 at the foundry of the Sardar Patel Marg, near Jaipur, India. Unique cast; signature of the artist scratched in the base. In private collection, New York City.
Here we visualize the yearning adolescent soul hovering between the power underneath, the earth and Mammon, exerting a gravitational pull, and the promise of ideal perfection dangling over his head in the form of the symbol of Christian Faith, suspended from the ceiling of a cage that encloses the airborne figure and that describes his known Universe.
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