Richard Bishop

Richard Evatt Bishop was a painter, writer, photographer and athlete. Nevertheless, the son of a railroad pioneer first made his career as an industrial engineer, and it was not until around 1920 that he turned to art. He then attended the Graphic Sketch Club at Cornell University. He etched and photographed mostly duck hunting scenes and animals, as he was also an ardent duck and goose hunter. One of his 1932 entries titled Coming In was selected in 1936 for the third duck stamp series of Canada. As an industrialist he always tried to make his art financially successfully, never losing his profit-oriented principles from his early days as an industrial engineer.

In total he exhibited six etchings at the 1932 art competitions, in competition Pintails from 1932 (sized 30 x 39 cm, sheet 39 x 50 cm), Coming In (13 x 20 cm), and Mallards Pitching (33 x 25 cm), and “hors concours” Reflections from 1930 (22 x 33 cm, sheet 32 x 41 cm), Bog Sprites from 1931 (20 x 31 cm), and Whizzing, also from 1931 (21 x 18 cm).