richard danskin is a name synonymous with art. He has held a brush or pencil in his hand throughout his life and has always had an acute visual memory and a perceptive eye. A native Californian, born in 1936, Richard was in his mid-twenties when he opened his own home design office near San Francisco. Designs for more than six-hundred luxurious custom built homes emanated from his office – homes that have been featured in many national magazines and have won numerous awards. Not limited to homes, Danskin has also designed boats, automobiles, swimming pools and exotic gardens.

Beginning in 1967 Richard had devoted himself full time to the art of painting – working as many as 350 days per year in an exhausting time consuming effort to combine the three dimensional quality and color blending that are found only in true representational work.

In 1968, Richard opened his first gallery in Carmel. Subsequently he also owned galleries in Palm Springs, Maui, Palm Beach Florida and Palm Desert California.

Richard became nationally known for his realistic landscape paintings and his acclaimed Americana series of rural America.  He also turned his artistic bent to interpreting cities of the world into 3-dimensional works of art. He spent many hours traveling and photographing cities of the world, then using his design background combined with artistic creativity he created something whimsical. Most clients exclaim with excitement when they see his cities with words of  "oh, I've eaten in that restaurant!" or "I stayed in that hotel!" or other fond remembrances.

Thousands of visitors to the gallery have viewed his paintings and he became a top selling artist. After forty years of painting and owning Galleries, Richard decided to retire in 2008. He continues to live in Palm Desert and visits the gallery. A selection of his work is available in the gallery.