Richard was born in Davenport, Iowa in 1944. In 1967, he received his B.A. from the University of Iowa and later received his M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Cincinnati in 1969.
Original artwork, reproduced as illustrations for: Sugihara, Yoshie and David W. Plath. Sensei and his people. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1969). P. 67.
