Drawings and Sketches
- RESometimes one is tempted to think, on seeing some magnificent scene, that the camera is the only means of making a record to remind one of its grandeur. But this is not so as a painter. The mere act of putting a pencil to paper and looking and trying to record something seen means that one has been in real contact with nature, and viewing an old sketchbook with only the slightest of drawings in it, makes a flash back in the memory which a photographic album is powerless to do.
Though Richard did not return to the concentrated period of drawing in pencil during the late 1920s, a small body of intense, highly finished drawings was made across a range of subjects up to the late '80s. His sketches function as personal, on the spot notations, with concise written comments that act as prompts for future work.
