Born in Chelsea, MA. in 1926, Richard served in the U.S.N.R. World War II 1944-46 as a photographer and later graduated from the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, 1950. He studied design under Prof. Gyorgy Kepes at M.I.T. School of Visual Design Architectural Center Cambridge, MA. Richard's talents resulted in a successful career in advertising art, where he worked as a commercial artist and art director for various distinguished ad agencies throughout the Boston area. For several years, he owned and operated an art studio and gallery in Watertown, MA.

EDUCATION: Museum School  of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. 1950

MILITARY: World War II, U.S. Naval Reserve 1944-46

SELECTED AWARDS:
    A.S.A. Ara S. Boyan Award in Humanities              1975
        for the contribution to Living Arts-Bromall, PA.         
    Stone & Webster Arts Festival, Boston, MA.            1978
        First Prize-Watercolor Medium                            1979  
        First Prize-Graphic Prints
    Visiting Artist Honored Medal                                1990
        100th Anniversary of Hovhaness Aivasofski
        July 22, 1990, Theodosia Crimea Russia

SELECTED One Man Shows:
   Brockton Art Fuller Memorial Museum Brockton, MA   1972
    Secretary of State Office-Boston, MA State House     1975
    Newton Public Library Newton, MA                            1978  
    AGBU Art Gallery New York                                     1979
    Armenian Library and Museum of America               1990
       Watertown, MA. 
    Editions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.                                1997
    Grunthal Gallery, Taos, NM.                                    1999
    Editions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.                                2002
    Paxton McCall Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.                      2002
    Wilder Nightingale fine Art, Taos, NM.                      2002
    Editions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.                               2006

PUBLICATIONS:
    Ararat Quarterly Issue No. 53 AGBU NY.                              1970
    The American Review Saruyan Memorial Issue Boston, MA.   1981
    Ararat Quarterly Issue No. 73 AGBU NY.                              1978
    Listed Who's Who in the East                                            1991
    Listed in the German Artistic Encyclopedia                           1983
       Cultural Artist of All Times and Nation,
       F.G. Saur Munich-Leipzig
    Soviet Emigre Artists Life and Work in the USSR &
      United States M.E Sharp Inc., Armonk, NY  London            1985  
    Minas AAA Publishing, Canada                                          1996
    My Travels Thru Armenia, Tashjian                                    1980
       Art Studio, Watertown, MA.

AFFILIATIONS:
    Armenian artists Association of America, Watertown, MA.
    Boston Visual Artists, Union, Boston, MA.
    Copely society of Boston, MA.

Art Exchange Gallery is fortunate to have the work of Richard H. Tashjian,
Contact us for more images or information on this gifted artist. 

	"Scattered Clouds Over Mesa"  -Oil on Board    6"x11"
	"Canyon De Chelly"  -Oil on Canvas    30"x48"
	"Bryce Canyon, Thor's Head"  -Oil on Canvas    30"x40"
	"Coyote Canyon"  -Acrylic on Board    22"x28"
	"Jemez Mountains"  -Oil on Board   8"x10"
	"Landscape With Fall Chamisa"  -Scrylic on Board   12"x16"
	"Grand Canyon, South Rim"  -Oil on Canvas    30"x48"
	"Leaning Tree Along Mesa"  -Oil on Board    8"x10"
	"Mesa and Adobe"  -Acrylic on Board    5.5"x7"
	"Pedernal Abiqui"  -Acrylic on Board    12"x16"