William Trost Richards: True to Nature: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches at Stanford University

William Trost Richards, born in Philadelphia in (1833-1905), made the natural world his subject. This book celebrates his life and work with reproductions of 230 pieces in pencil, watercolor, charcoal and oil. He began his career as an artist of the Hudson River School. Richards' place in American art is the focus of an essay by Carol M. Osborne, the curator at the time the works were donated to Stanford University.