Leonard Richmond, 1889-1965

• Biography

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  Biography	Leonard Richmond was a landscape and figure painter, born in Somerset, but moved to Canada and then to the USA. He exhibited extensively in British art institutions and also showed widely overseas. Richmond won a number of awards during his career, including the Tuthill Prize at the Chicago International Watercolour Exhibition in 1928. During WWI, he became a war artist for the Canadian Government. After the war, he was commissioned to design posters promoting rail and hotel facilities for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He also produced a number of posters for British rail companies and London Transport in the 1930s. Additionally, Richmond wrote a number of instructional books, including The Art of Landscape Painting and The Technique of Oil Painting, as well as travel books such as Devon and Cornish Days and Cornish Days.
  Place of birth	Somerset, United Kingdom
  Education	Taunton School of Art, Chelsea School of Art,
  Employment	Designed posters for London Transport, 1933
  Role	Artist,