Works on Paper

Drawing has always been Richard’s most important medium. In his words: “While making prints, I fell in love with fine handmade rag paper, and made the early decision to work only on good paper. Fine paper is sensual and respects the ink and color.” These works range across acrylic, charcoal, India ink and ink wash, pastel, colored pencil, watercolor, lithography, etching and monotype. What they share is that they are all works on paper.

**New Mexico Landscape**
Monotype/paper
(Private Collection)

**Life Dance #9**
Acrylic/Paper
(Private collection)

**Wedding Song**
Charcoal,pastel/paper
(Private collection)

**In Black & White**
Charcoal, chalk,
conte/paper
28 x 40

**Fantasy**
Chalk, charcoal,
pastel/paper

**Impregnation Series #3**
Pencil,charcoal,ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Coupling**
Pastel, charcoal,
chalk/paper

**Impregnation Series #2**
Pastel, charcoal,
conte/paper
(Private collection)

**Emanations 32 x 47**
Mixed-media/paper
(Private collection)

**Emanations 2 32 x 47**
Mixed/paper
(Private collection)

**Orgy Form**
Mixed-media/paper
(Private collection)

**Horizon**
Charcoal, pastel/paper
39 x 47

**A Secret Place**
Mixed-media
collage/paper
(Private collection)

**Ancient Mystery Inside**
Intagio/paper

**Tea Party**
Ink wash/paper
(Private collection)

**3-Ring Circus Sideshow**
Intaglio- Etching

**Desert Dance 2**
Charcoal, pastel/paper

**Hot Night in NY**
mixed media/paper
22 x 30

**Woman Looking in Mirror**
Pastel/paper

**Costa Rican Still-Life**
Acrylic/Paper
12" X 12"

**City Late Night**
Monotype, pastel/paper
22" x 30"

**Night Fevor**
Monotype/paper
50" x 38"

**Window Shopping Dance**
Pastel/paper
20" x 30"

**Subway Dance**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Val on Floor with Mirror**
Intaglio/paper

**Knight in Times Square**
Ink & sepia wash/paper

**Locker Room**
Pastel/Paper
(Private collection)

**Metacarpal Metaphysics**
Three Color Lithograph

**A Little, Little, Little Hope**
Ink, Color Pencils/Paper

**Bird's Eye View**
Manuel Antonio
Acrylic/Paper

**Pulling the Strings**
Monotype, ink & wash/paper

**Family System in Orbit**
Ink, color pencil/paper

**Shopping Dream 7**
Monotype, ink wash/paper

**Shopping Dream #9**
Monotype w/Color Pencil

**Water Water Everywhere**
Acrylic/paper

**Jailed Nude w/ Shadows**
Pastel/paper
24 x 36

Ink Drawings

“I believe the most fundamental skill a visual artist must develop is the ability ‘to see.’ Drawing from life creates a link between hand and eye, and between the outer world and our perception of it. I like to draw in ink because I can’t erase, so I depend on contour drawing to help me be there to see and feel, trusting my hand and eyes rather than my head, to produce what I call a Living Line, one that captures the character of the moment.”

**Margaritte von Breison**
Ink/paper
Belize

**Carla in East Village, NYC**
Ink/paper

**Veselkas, East Village**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Valerie in Aix-en-Provence**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Boston Museum Sculpture Study**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Studies at Met #4**
Sepia ink/buff paper

**Josh Kligerman, Mexico City**
Ink/paper

**Jonathan Schwaber, RIP**
Ink/paper ABQ

**"Chief" Ferry Boat, Belize**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Andre the Poet - Park Slope**
Ink/paper

**Suzy Boshwit NYC**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Hagen Asleep**
Dixie Friend Gay Opening
Allen Stone Gallery
Ink/paper

**Washington Square Park, NYC**
Ink/paper

**Margaritte von Brieson**
Sepia Ink/paper

**Rose at the Whitney NYC**
Ink, wash/paper
(Private collection)

**Chris & Val in Paris**
Pencil/paper
(Private collection)

**Noah 7 Years Old**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Sam Reading**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Village Cigar**
7th & Christopher, NYC
Ink/paper

**Henry Gallery Hopping in Soho**
Ink/paper

**Suzanne Seghair in Austria**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Pushkin Sleeping in Taos,NM**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Pushkin Asleep w/Jet-Lag**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Neil Eldridge in ABQ**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Michael Capeless on Baja Trip**
Ink/paper

**Hilario Hernandez in Cozumel**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Nancy Kowzikowski in NYC**
Ink/paper
(Private collection)

**Man w/Stripe Shirt om Subway**
Ink/paper

**Sleeping Man in Parker on Subway**
Ink/paper

**Women on Subway**
Ink & wash/paper
(Private collection)

**Reading at the Living Room**
Ink/paper

**"Ethnica"**
Shuttle Theater, E. Village
Ink/paper

**Study at the Ear Inn, NYC**
Sepai Ink/Arches Buff/paper

**Couple on Beach - Costa Rica**
Ink/paper

**Woman in Chair Bradley Beach**
Ink/paper

**Inner Figures Reaching Out**
Ink/paper

Monotypes

“I have been making monotypes for over 50 years. It is one of my favorite mediums, because it is easy to add ink or wipe it away, allowing images to quickly evolve, appear, disappear and transform, opening the door to the unknown. Monotypes are the perfect marriage of painting and printmaking: I work in full color directly on the plate, yet the prints have unmistakable qualities that can only be achieved by printing the image on paper.”

**Burning Man**
30" X 22"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Sign of the Times**
22" x 30"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Once in a Blue Moon**
22" x 30"
Monotype

**Alter Piece**
Monotype/paper
22" x 30"

**Men's Dance**
Monotype 30" x 40"
(In private collection)

**Spring Ritual #9**
40" X 30"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Pink Clouds**
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Kooning 9**
30" X 40"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**True Colors #4**
Monotype
16.5" x 12.5"

**True Colors #5**
Monotype
16.5" x 12.5"

**Mask #10**
16.5" x 12.5"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**True Colors #9**
16.5" x 12.5"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Many Lives Many Forms**
Monotype
50" x 38"

**Reoccurring Lives**
Monotype,Charcoal/paper
50" x 38"

**David**
30" X 22"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Portrait of Hiding**
Monotype
30" x 22"

**Bald Man #9**
30"X 22"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Portrait of a Bald Man**
30" x 22"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Man in Stripe Shirt**
Monotype
15" x 11"

**Mannequin & Hanging Ball**
50" x 38"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Mannequin w/Shadow**
Monotype
50" X 38"

**Emotional Landscape**
50" x 38"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Man Container**
50" X 38"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Womb Figure w/Box**
Monotype
42" x 28"

**Womb Figure #2**
30" x 22"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Man with Window Shadows**
30" x 22"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Message:The Space Between**
Monotype
30" x 22"

**Self Portrait 2 '77**
30" x 22"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Inner Spiral 4**
Monotype
15" x 11”
(Private Collection)

**Swath Revealing**
14" x 11"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Central Ave**
50" x 38"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Passing in the Night**
14" x 18"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Night Ride Home 2**
Monotype
11" x 9.25"

**Landscape in 3 Shapes**
Monotype
30" X 22"

**Portrait in Shapes #26**
Monotype
15" x 11"

**Portrait in Shapes #23**
Monotype
15" x 11"

**Portrait in Shapes #36**
Monotype
15" x 11"

**Portrait in Shapes #21**
Monotype
15" x 11"

**Portrait in Shapes R&B**
15" x 11"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Large Shapes Portrait #7**
Monotype
30" x 22"

**Large Portrait in Shapes #13**
Monotype
30" x 22"

**The Bridge**
30" x 22"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Desert Storm**
Burning Oil Fields
Monotype
15" x 11"

**NM Landscape 2**
15" x 19"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**City Night Dance**
30" x 22"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Night Window Shopping**
22" x 30"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Corner Store Night Scene**
22" x 30"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**City Shuffle (Joe's City)**
22" x 30"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Shopping Dreams 7**
Monotype
38" x 50"

**Shopping Dreams 8**
Monotype
38" x 50"

**Shopping Dreams 5**
Monotype
22" x 30"

**Shopping Dreams 1of 3**
22" x 30"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Shopping Dreams 2**
22" x 30"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Shopping Dreams 3**
22" x 30"
Monotype
(Private collection)

**Storyline w/Red Woman**
Monotype
18.5" x 14.75"

**Leaning Inward**
17" x 14"
Monotype
Creation Triptych #1

**The Great Swirl**
17" x 14"
Monotype
Creation Triptych #2

**Growing Upward**
17" x 14"
Monotype
Creation Triptych #3

**Creation Triptych**
Monotype
17" x 42"

**Three Men in Shadows**
Monotype
24" x 36"

**Men in Window w/Shadows**
Monotype
28" X 41"

**Two People in Window**
Monotype
30" x 22"

**To the Inner Room**
Monotype
30" x 22"

**Man in Window w/Flowers**
Monotype
40" x 30"

**Woman w/Baby in Window**
30" x 22"
Monotype
(Private collection)

Works on Paper

Ink Drawings

Monotypes

Richard Gins

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