The Smithsonian Institution has the following online biography of the artist from the catalog of the Sara Roby Foundation collection:<\/p>\n
De Menocal graduated from the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. During his early career he drew illustrations for Cond\u00e9 Nast publications, organized displays for the Lord and Taylor department store in New York City, and created costume designs for Radio City Music Hall. He had his first solo exhibition in 1951, and continued to show in this country even after moving to Brazil. In the 1960s de Menocal withdrew from the secular world and spent over a decade at the Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut, and later with the Trappists in Derryville, Virginia, and Spencer, Massachusetts. After leaving the monastery he settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and returned to painting. In the still life arrangements for which he is best known, de Menocal is concerned with quietude of mood and with formal issues of balance and tone.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Reference:<\/p>\n
Mecklenburg, Virginia M.; Essay By William Kloss. Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection.<\/em> Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1987. p. 48. Online at http:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/search\/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=1205 (9 August 2006).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Richard A. de Menocal (1919-1995)
\nLady in Large Headdress<\/strong>
\nAmerican: c. Mid 20th Century
\nSigned lower right \u201cMenocal\u201d
\nSigned verso: \u201cde Menocal\u201d and stamped by Cond\u00e9 Nast
\nWatercolor and gouache on paper
\n23 x 17 inches<\/p>\nTo see other de Menocal paintings and drawings on our site, search our site.<\/p>\n
Line drawing accented with painterly strokes of color, depicting a woman in profile wearing a large headdress. It was apparently drawn for a magazine belonging to Cond\u00e9 Nast Publications, bearing the publisher’s stamp on the back. Indeed, de Menocal worked for Cond\u00e9 Nast early in his career.<\/p>\n
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