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"I'm not a plein air painter, although I work outdoors half the time. I paint our coastline and do my best to capture the power and spirit of the central coast. It's the coast I know; the coast I grew up with; the coast I love. It is perhaps the fact that I can't swim that makes the ocean more threatening and more mysterious to me. There is an edge that I feel my work must have and colors that speak of the mood. It is my love of the "dragon", the Chinese title for nature's spirit and it is that spirit that my paintings of the coast are all about." --Dick Crispo
As the late Margaret Wentworth Owings stated, "Dick Crispo's paintings are the spirit of our coast."
Dick Crispo is listed in "Who's Who in the West" 1976-1984. "Who's Who in American Art" 1974, 1976, 1980, 1984. "Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans." He has also appeared in over 140 magazines, periodicals and newspapers. His work is documented on film in "Dick Crispo Maker of Images", Frasconi-Seizer Films.
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"Silver Light Action $1,250
Oil - 25" x 30"
"Spring at Asilomar" $650
Oil - 12" x 16"
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"Highland Cove I" $1,200
Oil - 28" x 22"
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Crispo's work is represented world-wide in numerous private collections and the following permanent collections:
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Conn.
Bibliotheque National, Paris, France
Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
Instituto National de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, D.F.
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
University of Guadalajara, Mexico
The National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
The Print Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York City, New York
State of California at Sacramento
Escuela de Pintura y Escultura, Mexico City
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Harrison Memorial Library, Carmel, CA
Museo de Belle Arti, Lugano, Switzerland
Academia di Belle Arti Licco Artisco, Naples, Italy
U.N. Library, New York City
U.N.E.S.C.O., New York City
American Print Council, New York City and others
University of Asmara, Asmara, Ethiopia
Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Municipal Museum of Plastic Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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