biography of Richard Vernon GOETZ (1915-1991)

Birth place: Lawrenceburg, TN

Addresses: Oklahoma City, OK

Profession: Still life, portrait, and landscape painter, educator

Studied: Oklahoma City Univ.; Cape School Art; NAD; ASL; with Robert Brackman, Henry Henche, George Bridgman, Sidney Dickenson, Jonas Lee.

Exhibited: Butler Inst. Am. Art, 1968 (McDonnough Award); Allied Artists Am., 1968; Oklahoma Mus. Art, 1968; AAPL, 1969 (Pres. award), 1971; Oklahoma-Texas Spring Ann., 1968 (prize), 1972; Grand Central Art Gal., NYC, 1970s

Member: AAPL

Work: Butler Inst Am Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Okla Art Ctr, Oklahoma City; Okla Hist Soc, Oklahoma City; Fort Smith (AR) Art Center; Kirkpatrick Foundation (200 works)

Comments: Preferred medium: oils. Author: "Painting a Still Life," Am. Artist 1968. Teaching: director, Goetz Art School, Oklahoma City, 1946-on; Goetz Art School, Santa Fe, 1971-on; co-director, Malden Bridge Art School, New York, 1964-71.

Sources: WW73; add"l info courtesy James Cox, Woodstock, NY