RICHARD WYATT, JR. (1955- ) Don't F... With Me Today.
Acrylic on cotton canvas, 2003. 660x813 mm; 26x32 inches. Signed and dated in acrylic, lower right.
Provenance: Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles; private collection (2005).
Exhibited: About Face, Steve Turner Fine Art, Los Angeles. February 26 - April 9, 2005.
Don't F... With Me Today is an excellent example of the powerful realism of Richard Wyatt. For more than 30 years, this Los Angeles artist has actively produced art for public and corporate spaces which have been featured in publications, films, television, and documentaries throughout the world. In 1996, Wyatt was commissioned to create the City of Dreams, River of History mural at the historic landmark Union Station, Los Angeles, CA. In 2010, Wyatt (in collaboration with May Sun) completed a public commission for the historic Robert F. Kennedy Monument located at the former Ambassador Hotel site on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA. In 2012, he restored his iconic Hollywood Jazz: 1945-1972 mural in ceramic tile at the Capitol Records building in Hollywood, CA.
In addition, Wyatt has produced a significant body of smaller scale paintings and drawings. Before earning his BFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Richard Wyatt's art education began in the mid-1960s at the Watts Towers Art Center and the Studio Watts Workshop. He also attended the Tutor Art Program led by William Pajaud which met on Saturdays at the Otis Art Institute and where Wyatt began studying, drawing and painting with Charles White. Recently in 2019, Wyatt's work was recently included in the Los Angeles County of Museum of Art exhibition Life Model: Charles White and His Students, a companion exhibition to Charles White: A Retrospective.
