This painting is on an 11” x 13” canvas stretcher, the frame is 17-1/2” x 15-1/2” and it’s in excellent condition with original custom gold leaf on pine frame. The oil on canvas of a clown ca. 1955-73 by Baltimore and Taos New Mexico artist Richard William Dicus (1901 - 1973)

Richard William Dicus was born In Streater, IL, in 1901 and later

attended Knox College for a while. He studied at the Chicago Art Institute and worked with Paul Ouzonoff of the Moscow Arts Theater, painting murals. He eventually went to New York and studied art at the Student's Art League and also privately. Moving to Baltimore, Md., he became manager of the advertising department of Hutzler's Department Store.

In 1928 he married Kathleen Jarvis, and for the next five years they traveled in Europe. In Munich Dicus studied painting with Gustave Johannes Buchner, in Paris, he studied with Jean Marchand and Fernand Leger, and in Mallorca he painted portraits and landscapes. he returned to Baltimore in 1934 and established his own art school, taught painting at the Maryland Art Institute.

From 1955 to the end of his life in 1973 he lived in Taos. In 1955 he and Mark Romero started The Work Shop in Taos where he designed custom made Spanish colonial style furniture, and designed several houses in the area.

I will pack this so that it will not get damaged in the shipping process.