Richard Lennox

"Painting for me is about light, memory and the senses. It is also about contagion of shapes and forms, horizontal and vertical stability, rhythms, overlaps, repetitions, variations, juxtapositions, contiguities, ambiguities, clarity, tonal contrasts, volume, textures, color assemblies, and geometries that catch the light."
-Richard Lennox

The son of an accomplished furniture designer, Richard Lennox has been painting since grade school. For many years, he ran the family business, Lennox Furniture, just north of Lambertville, New Jersey. In the late 1990s, he sold the business in order to devote himself full-time to painting. Not long after, he moved into his father's eighteenth-century farmhouse in Bucks Country, drawn to the scenic banks of the Delaware River like so many artists before him. He frequently explores the river towns along the Delaware for inspiration, taking a camera with him to record his sensations.

Lennox graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1966. He has exhibited at numerous museums, including the Delaware Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Hunterdon Museum, and the Allentown Art Museum. Galleries that have displayed his work include the Cheltenham Art Center, the Marion Locks Gallery, the Peale House, Phillips' Mill, Artworks, the Coryell Gallery, Rosenfeld Gallery, Ruth Morpeth, and the Somerville Manning Gallery.

Education and Training
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1961
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1966

Influences and Teachers
Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin, John Constable, Piero Della Francesca, El Greco, Harry Leith-Ross, Giorgio Morandi, John Frederick Peto, Diego Velazquez, Johannes Vermeer, James Penny, Hobson Pitman, Walter Stuempfig, Franklin Watkins

Connection to Bucks County
Lennox resides in Erwinna, and his paintings are influenced by Bucks County, specifically the Delaware River Valley.

Colleagues and Affiliations
Ranulph Bye, Vincent Ceglia, Tom Chesar, Ann Cooper Dobbins, Alexander Farnham, Paul Mathews, Katherine Steele Renninger, Vladimir Salamun, Robert Sakson

Major Group Exhibitions
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1966, 1967
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1969
Peale House, PAFA Fellowship, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1970
Storelli Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1971
Cheltenham Art Center Annual, Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, 1971, 1973
National Academy of Design Annual, New York, New York, 1972
Woolworth Estate, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1972
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1973
Allentown Museum of Art Annual, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1973
Delaware Museum of Art Annual, Wilmington, Delaware, 1973, 1979, 1980
Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, New Jersey, 1973, 1974, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1997
Woodmere Art Gallery Annual, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 2004
Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1975
Stover Mill, Erwinna, Pennsylvania, 1975
Summit Art Center Annual, Summit, New Jersey, 1975
Coryell Gallery Shows, Lambertville, New Jersey, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Phillips' Mill Annual Art Exhibition, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Delaware Valley Landscapes Show, Artworks, Trenton, New Jersey, 1985
Abington Art Center, Abington, 1990
Blackburn and Yates Gallery, Frenchtown, New Jersey, 1990, 1991, 1992
Prallsville Mill, Juried Exhibition, Stockton, New Jersey, 1990
Prallsville Mill, National Juried Exhibition, Stockton, New Jersey, 2004, 2005
Sydelle Puchek Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992, 1993, 1994
American Artists Gallery, Wayne, Pennsylvania, 1993, 1994, 1995
Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, Delaware, 1997, 1998
Fan Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1998
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2001, 2002, 2004
US Artists Show, Philadelphia Armory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2001, 2002, 2004
Ruth Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, New Jersey, 2002
Phillips' Mill 75th Anniversary Retrospective Art Exhibition, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 2005
Ellarslie Open, Trenton, New Jersey, 2006, 2007
Artsbridge, Juried Show, Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville, New Jersey, 2006, 2007
The Artist Looks at Hunterdon County, Prallsville Mills, Stockton, New Jersey, 2006
Richard Lennox: A Retrospective Exhibition, Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio, 2008

Best in Show Award, Lambertville Historical Society and Coryell Gallery Annual, 1984
First Patron's Award, Phillips' Mill, 1984
Franklin T. McClintok Award, Phillips' Mill, 1989
Second Prize, Abington Art Center, Small Painting Exhibition, 1990
Coryell Gallery Award, Lambertville Historical Society and Coryell Gallery Annual, 1990
Flemington National Bank Award, The Artist Looks at Hunterdon County, Hunterdon Art Center, 1991
Casimir and Jane P. Sienkiewicz Award, Phillips' Mill, 1994
The Coryell Gallery Award, The Artist Looks at Hunterdon County, Hunterdon Art Center, 1997
Casimir and Jane P. Sienkiewicz Award, Phillips' Mill, 2002
LDP Consulting Group Award, Lambertville Historical Society and Coryell Gallery Annual, 2002
Ann Taxiarkis Award, Phillips' Mill, 2005
Travis Gallery Award, Phillips' Mill, 2006
Byers Award, Lambertville Historical Society and Coryell Gallery Annual, 2006
The Doris Brandes Memorial Award for Overall Best in Show, Artsbridge 13th Annual Juried Show, 2007
Phillip's Mill Community Association Award in Honor of Jim Grosholz, Phillip's Mill Annual, 2007