Richard Dey de Ribcowsky (1880-1946)
Coast of Maine
Oil on canvas, c. 1913, 19 3/4" x 29 1/2"
Donated by Charles and Laura Mooney, in memory of George R. Mooney

Richard Dey de Ribcowsky (1880-1936) was an internationally active artist known for his dramatic oil paintings of diverse landscapes, seascapes, and maritime scenes.  Born in Bulgaria, Ribcowsky received formal artistic training beginning at age thirteen when he left Bulgaria to study art rather than go to military school, initiating his artistic education in Paris before continuing his studies in Florence, Italy, and Petrograd/St. Petersburg, Russia.  In 1904, Ribcowsky moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina and founded the Buenos Aires Academy of Beaux-Arts.  As a well-traveled artist, active in Europe, South America, and the United States over the course of his life, he won awards and exhibited works in Russia, Uruguay, Ukraine, Brazil, and Bulgaria.  He moved to New York City in 1910, and would remain in the United States for the remainder of his life, making various trips across the country during which he would create oil paintings of the diverse landscapes of early twentieth-century America, ranging from New York urban scenes, to the Redwood forests of California, to the Chihuahuan desert of Texas that would come to be reproduced as lithographs and jigsaw puzzles.  In his final years, Ribcowsky took residence in a high-end Los Angeles hotel, where his paintings were on permanent display and for sale.  As an artist, his paintings are noted for his masterly handling of light, for which he employed a self-taught technique he coined as ‘Reflex Light.’

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