Richard Scott Hill
Richard Scott Hill, an internationally renowned artist , graduated from Northside High in Atlanta in 1960; attended West Georgia College; and, in 1969, graduated with honors from the University of Georgia with a Master of Fine Arts degree; and while attending the University of Georgia, his artwork was included in numerous prestigious exhibitions, including Drawings USA and the American Drawing Biennial; while a senior at the university, Mr. Hill won the top award in painting during the Arts Festival of Atlanta; while a graduate student, his work was selected by John Canady, art critic of the New York Times, to represent contemporary American art in a traveling exhibition sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute; He was head of the Drawing Department at the Atlanta College of Art for 14 years, where he was tenured in 1981, and he is currently teaching at West Georgia College, where he was invited to be the Artist-in-Residence in 1992; as a professional artist, Mr. Hill's artwork has been included in many national and internationally recognized exhibitions and in many corporate and museum collections, including the High Museum of Art, the Augusta Museum of Art, the Georgia Council for the Arts, the Atlanta Civic Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Olinda, Recife, Brazil, and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia; his latest artistic achievement is the completion of a magnificent, spiraling tower that soars 80 feet in height for the Olympic Village in the Georgia Tech Plaza at the Georgia Institute of Technology; this sculpture is known as "The Kessler Campanile" and where it remains as a landmark , after the Olympic Games for the City of Atlanta and the State of Georgia;
Richard Scott Hill is an active community leader and is chairman of the Banning Neighborhood Coalition, Inc. in 1993, he was the recipient of the Environmentalist of the Year Award that was given by the West Georgia Chapter of the Georgia Conservancy.
Richard Scott Hill is a master draughtsman. He has received many awards in the field of drawing. Although he has completed thousands of drawings, most of these have been sold to museums and collectors. He is now offering limited edition prints of this body of work. They are printed in 17" x 22" and 24" x 36" formats. Each edition is limited to 25, signed and numbered prints. They are printed on 100% rag paper.with archival inks. These limited edition prints are available with or without the text. Prints without text will have a 2" white border around the image.
