Richard Wilt Legacy Gifting Program Continues 2015
Richard Wilt Legacy (1915-1981)
River Gallery + Exhibits and the Wilt family are pleased to announce that the Richard Wilt Legacy (1915 - 1981) Museum Gifting Program continues. River Gallery + Exhibits was hired by the Wilt family in 2012 to launch the Museum Gifting Exhibition. Over 150 works were displayed in the gallery in historic downtown Chelsea, Michigan and over 60 works were placed in 9 museums throughout the country. During that exhibition, a part of the collection was offered for sale to private collectors and 75% of the proceeds from those sales were donated to the Penny Stamps School of Art and Design, resulting in $10,000 being gifted to the Richard Wilt Scholarship in 2012. His work includes paintings, watercolors, and drawings.
Richard Wilt was generous with his art. If a friend while visiting his studio remarked, “I like that”, Richard was quick to make a gift of it. To his students he gave his energy, his knowledge and his support. His family is extending that generosity. The Richard Wilt Legacy: A Museum Gifting Program offers an opportunity for museums to select artworks for their permanent collections. Works will be gifted to museums at no charge on a first come first serve basis. The Wilt family seeks to share with the public artworks by this American painter who always followed his own bent and spent his life pursuing and mastering diverse subjects and altering his approach in inventive ways.
Most works are on site at River Gallery + Exhibits and anyone interested in seeing them in person can call the office at 734.433.0826 to set up an appointment.
Museums who have acquired artworks:
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
South Bend Museum of Art
South Bend, IN
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg PA
Dayton Art Institute
Dayton, OH
University of Dayton
Dayton, OH
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Cedar Rapids, IA
Dennos Museum Center
Traverse City, MI
Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society
Saugatuck, MI
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Kalamazoo, MI
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
Ann Arbor, MI
Available for Museums
Antigua Mural, 1962-3 | 1 of 8 panels acrylic on canvas
Two Boys Fighting, One Gun, 1949 | oil on stretched canvas | 30 x 36″ unframed
The Baby, 1962 | oil on canvas | 30 x 40″
Two Boys Fighting, Gun, Red Background, 1948 | oil on canvas | 30 x 36″
Play Deadly, Deadly Play | oil on canvas | 30 x 42″
Pittsburgh Hills with Bridge, 1954 | oil on stretched canvas | 30 x 40″ unframed
Crucification, 1949 | oil on canvas | 40 x 30″
Fourth of July, 1966 | oil on canvas | 40 x 30″
Dissapated Socialite, 1947 | oil on unstretched canvas | 29.5 x 25.5″ unframed
Campus Life with Gargoyle Magazine, 1947 | oil on unstretched canvas | 35.5 x 29
The Zoo, 1966 | oil on canvas | 42 x 28″
Cows Laying Down with Trees, 1977 | acrylic on canvas | 38 x 40″
Cows in Pasture, near Monroton | acrylic & wolf pencil on canvas | 34 x 45
Two Tigers with Bones 1950’s | watercolor on paper | 22 x 28.5 unframed
Mother with Twin Babies
Barnabus
Baby Seated in Crib
Available for Private Collections
Young Boys with Guns | drawing on paper | 19 x 16″ unframed
Pennsylvania Landscape, 1975 | acrylic, carbon pencil on stretched canvas | 30 x 40″ unframed
Penna Flood #25, 1973 | watercolor | 22 x 30″ unframed
Penna Flood #6a, Cow 1 | watercolor | 22 x 30″ unframed
Penna Flood #8A, 1972 | watercolor | 22 x 30″
Mother Nursing Child, 1949 | drawing on paper | 25 x 19″
Long Haired Hippie with Two Girls, 1970’s | acrylic on stretched canvas | 33 x 28″ unframed
Museum Acquisitions
Military Portrait Collection | 26 panels drawings on stretched canvas | in the collection of Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, Saugatuck MI
Protest Series, 1972 | 1 of 23 drawings on paper | in the collection of the University of Dayton, Dayton OH
Girls with Toys, 1951 in the collection of South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend IN
Horizontal Family, 1957 in the collection of South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend IN
And the Elders, 1957 in the collection of South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend IN
The Spanish Ladies, 1957 in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
The Baby, 1951 in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
Double Self Portrait, Outward Pose, 1970 in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
Homeless Man, 1950 in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
Sleeping Men and Excavation, 1950 in the collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo MI
Man Snuzzling Woman in the collection of the Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City MI
Long Haired Woman Shelling Peas in the collection of the Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City MI
The Illustrated Woman, 1967 in the collection of the Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City MI
Two College Boys, One with Saddle Show, 1947 in the collection of the Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City MI
Cows – Round and Round, 1979 in the collection of the Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City MI
Woman Sniffing Flowers, 1950’s in the collection of Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids IA
Pittsburgh Church, 1952 in the collection of Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids IA
Red Haired Woman in the collection of Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids IA
Ali Baba #2 in the collection of Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids IA
E-Tooka Sho #6 in the collection of Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids IA
King #3 in the collection of Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids IA
King #1 in the collection of Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids IA
Baby on Quilt, 1952 in the collection of C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor MI
Mother and Child with Plant, 1951 in the collection of C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor MI
Two Girls with Dolls, 1980 in the collection of C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor MI
The Coke Drinkers, 1947 in the collection of Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg PA