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Richard Schlecht Photographs
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413.644.0045 Tuscan Olives, No. 6 Giclée Print signed, Richard Schlecht
©2005 Richard Schlecht. All Rights Reserved
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413.644.0045 Tuscan Olives, No. 4 Giclée Print signed, Richard Schlecht
©2005 Richard Schlecht. All Rights Reserved
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413.644.0045 Tuscan Olives, No. 1 Giclée Print signed, Richard Schlecht
©2005 Richard Schlecht. All Rights Reserved
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413.644.0045 Villa Rossi Giclée Print signed, Richard Schlecht
©2005 Richard Schlecht. All Rights Reserved
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413.644.0045 Pitigliano Giclée Print signed, Richard Schlecht
©2005 Richard Schlecht. All Rights Reserved
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413.644.0045 Lonely Oak Farm Giclée Print signed, Richard Schlecht
©2005 Richard Schlecht. All Rights Reserved
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413.644.0045 Pennsylvania Barn Giclée Print signed, Richard Schlecht
©2005 Richard Schlecht. All Rights Reserved
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413.644.0045 Hay Meadow, New Hampshire Giclée Print signed, Richard Schlecht
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413.644.0045 High Mowing Archival Pigment Ink Print signed, Richard Schlecht
©2005 Richard Schlecht. All Rights Reserved
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413.644.0045 Hay Bales in Sunlight Archival Pigment Ink Print signed, Richard Schlecht
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413.644.0045 Afternoon Light Giclée Print signed, Richard Schlecht
©2005 Richard Schlecht. All Rights Reserved
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413.644.0045 Cherries in Bowl Archival Pigment Ink Print signed, Richard Schlecht
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413.644.0045 Persimmon Giclée Print signed, Richard Schlecht
©2005 Richard Schlecht. All Rights Reserved
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About the Artist - Richard Schlecht Richard Schlecht has spent most of his working life as a painter and illustrator, and has only recently joined the photographic ranks as a fine art photographer. For almost 40 years his illustration work has been familiar to readers of the National Geograhic Magazine and many other publications.
Photography is nothing new, however; For two years in the 1950s, while he was a freshman and sophomore in college, he held a job for a Denver rental photographic facility, and after hours was allowed free run of the studios and darkrooms. Later he did some feature photography for a newspaper in Alaska. So in actuality, the past two years mark a return to photography rather than an introduction to it. Today his subjects include architecture and a bit of travel, as well as a number of floral pieces and still life. In the 1980’s he spent seven years going back and forth frequently to Italy, where he acquired material for paintings. Presently he lives in Frederick, MD, and is working mostly in the rolling farmlands of the region, which are rapidly being replaced by “intensive house farming”. “I’m very interested in how architecture fits into landscape and becomes (we hope) an integral part of it, rather than being merely appliquéd onto its surface. I first noticed this in the countryside of Tuscany and Umbria, where buildings and other architectural features have long been coexisting comfortably with nature and seem as if they have always been there. That sort of thing is virtually extinct in modern architecture (I’m not talking Big Buildings here, but rather the commonplace subdivisions and office parks littering the landscape, which for the most part have little to recommend them in this regard). We still have this relationship between man-made structures and natural settings in Western Maryland and indeed in many places); but it won’t last long given the population pressure that we are now experiencing. I want a record of it.”
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