Charles Henry Richert

American (1880-1974)

Charles Henry Richert was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1880.    He was a student of Joseph De Camp, Ernest Major, and Richard Andrew.  Richart spent a year in Europe studying art.  In 1906 he opened a studio in West Medford, Massachusetts.  Eventually he settled in Ellsworth, Maine, and painted coastal scenes around Blue Hill Bay and Mount Desert.

Richert was a member of the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, Painters Guild, Boston Artists, and the American Watercolor Society.  He exhibited at the Boston Art Club, the New York Watercolor Club, the American Watercolor Society, the American Federation of Art, the Philadelphia Art Club, the Connecticut Academy of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Annual Exhibition of 1912, the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design,  the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Richert held teaching positions at the Rindge Technical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts School of Art.  During his career he also worked for some time designing theater set layouts, and was known to have created color woodblock prints.  His work is in the collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.