Biography from InLiquid:  Bill Richards, who for many years taught painting at Moore College of Art, now lives in New York City. He was born in Grantsville, West Virginia, in 1936, and received his B.F.A. from Ohio University in 1958. He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1959 and was granted the M.F.A. degree from Indiana University in 1960. Solo exhibitions of Richards’s work include: Seigfred Gallery of Ohio University (1979); La Bertesca Gallery, Dusseldorf, West Germany (1977); Olympia Galleries, Philadelphia (1976); Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia (1975); Henri Gallery, Washington, DC (1973); Vanderlip Gallery, Philadelphia (1968). Group shows include: Large Drawings, traveling show organized by Independent Curators, Inc. (1985-87); Exuberant Abstraction, 100 Church Street, NY (1985); Three Approaches to Abstraction, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, and Salisbury College, Salisbury, MD (1984 85); Nineteen Artists – Emergent Americans: 1981 Exxon National Exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, NY (1982); 1975 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (1975); Made in Philadelphia fl, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1974); 163rd Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1968); Martha Jackson Gallery, NY (1967); New Directions, YMHA, Philadelphia (1966). Among the Collections which include his work are: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Indiana University; Ohio University; Dechert Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia; Westinghouse Corporation, Pittsburgh;.Thalheimer and Associates, Philadelphia; IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie, NY.