Art Beat features artist David Richardson
Don Wilkinson Given a storied family history and a youthful exposure to cultural pursuits, it seems that David Richardson was fated to become an artist. During the heyday of the Mad Men era, his father was the Vice President of Advertising for Cheeseborough Ponds. His mother was a fashion model and fashion artist in New York City, who painted all her life. Born in 1951 and raised in suburban Rye, New York, Richardson and his siblings made frequent trips to Manhattan with their mother to visit the Met, MOMA and the Museum of Natural History. Growing up “in a house that knew and made art,”...