ARTIST: P Richard Eichman (Maryland, 1941 - 2001)
TITLE: Girl in Blue Dress
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Some scratches/paint losses. Some damages to edges. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 5 x 3 inches / 12 x 7 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower left
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SKU#: 132248
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BIOGRAPHY:
P. Richard Eichman, Maryland's first small-town poet laureate who chronicled in verse the life and foibles of the Carroll County village of Union Bridge. He was designated poet laureate of Union Bridge by the Town Council.Mr. Eichman, also a musician and portrait painter, was born in Frederick and lived his entire life in the frame house on East Thomas Street built by a great-uncle during World War I.Here, in rooms filled with classic British literature ranging from the 16th century to the 19th century, with a focus on the works of Sir Walter Scott, Alexander Pope, Lord Byron and Jonathan Swift, Mr. Eichman composed his sonnets, heroic couplets, epigrams and iambic tetrameter in the style of Swift.A graduate of Elmer A. Wolfe High School, Mr. Eichman earned his bachelor's degree in piano and music education from the Peabody Conservatory in 1962. He taught music in Baltimore County public schools for 18 years until retiring in 1980. For the past 20 years, he worked as a portrait painter and gave lessons in his basement studio.