理查·司契米德1934年生于伊利诺伊州芝加哥市,从小开始绘画。十二岁时,他参加了艺术班,后来和父亲的朋友学习风景画。高中毕业后,他进入了芝加哥的美国艺术学院学习肖像,风景,和城市风貌。他本来想当插图画家,可是学院讲师定向培养他,引导他向早期的绘画大师学习,从此确立了他的职业绘画方向,最终成为了20世纪后期美国西南地区最重要的印象派画家之一。先后获得了肖像艺术家协会2000年终身成就奖和2005年金奖。 Richard Schmidt was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1934 and began painting as a kid. At the age of twelve, he attended art classes and later studied landscapes with his father’s friends. After graduating from high school, he entered the American Academy of Art in Chicago to study portraits, landscapes, and cityscapes. He originally wanted to be an illustrator, but college lecturers directed him to lead him to learn from the early masters of painting. He established his career in painting and eventually became one of the most important impressionist painters in the southwestern United States in the late twentieth century. Has won the Portrait Artists Association 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2005 gold medal.