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Printmaker Richard Nelson was born in Wichita Falls, Kansas, in 1954. His formal education began at Rice University, Texas, where, while pursuing engineering, he began studying engraving under Swiss printmaker Dadi Wirz. Nelson then studied for a time at the experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17 in Paris, France, with Stanley William Hayter before returning to the US and settling in New York.
From 1977 to 1998, he "worked, taught, and cleaned up at [Master Printer Robert] Bob Blackburn's Printmaking workshop". In the early 1980s he returned to engineering as he continued to volunteer at the Blackburn Workshop. From Artura.org: "Although I tried to be a full-time artist once in Paris for a bit, I missed having hot showers and went back to engineering. I accepted my role as being able to support the [Robert Blackburn] Printmaking Workshop and various artist friends with part of my income from Bell Labs. I have no 'artist's statement' but rather a statement for those with jobs—'buy more art.'"
In addition to visual art and engineering, Nelson is also an accomplished musician who plays the harpsichord, guitar, and sitar. A collector of Abstract Expressionist works by relatively unknown artists o
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Biographical/Historical note
Dadi Wirz, son of Swiss anthropologist Paul Wirz, was born in Switzerland in 1931. He spent much of his youth traveling with his father to Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Wirz was educated at the state school for applied and fine arts in Basel, Switzerland (1946-1950), apprenticed in photography with Schwitter S.A. photo engravers in Basel (1947-1950), and trained in Paris at Atelier 17 (1950-1952), and the Ecole du Louvre (1951). After his studies in Paris, Wirz joined his father on a research trip to New Guinea, where he documented their findings through photography and film making. During this time, Wirz developed a particular interest in the art from the Sepik area, a subject on which he has since lectured at museums and universities in the United States and Europe. Wirz taught photography and print making at Atelier 17, Ohio State University, Pratt Graphic Art Center, Rhode Island School of Design, and elsewhere.