richard danskin is a name synonymous with art. He has held a brush or pencil in his hand throughout his life and has always had an acute visual memory and a perceptive eye. A native Californian, born in 1936, richard was in his mid-twenties when he opened his own home design office near San Francisco. Designs for more than six-hundred luxurious custom-built homes emanated from his office - homes that have been featured in many national magazines and have won numerous awards. Not limited to homes, danskin has also designed boars, automobiles, swimming pools and exotic gardens.

Since 1967 richard has devoted himself full time to the art of painting - working as many as 350 days per year in an exhausting time consuming effort to combine the three dimensional quality and color blending that are found only in true representational work.

Having his own galleries in Carmel for eleven years, Palm Springs for thirteen years and beautiful El Paseo in Palm Desert, California for the past twenty years, along with Palm Beach, Florida, thousands of visitors have viewed his paintings and he has become one of the West's leading seeing artists.

Well known for many years as a realistic landscape painter, he has turned his artistic bent to interpreting cities of the world into 3-dimensional works of art. He spends many hours traveling and photographing cities of the world and then using his design background combined with artistic creativity to create something whimsical, exciting and new. Most of his clients exclaim with excitement when they see his cities with words of "oh, I've eaten in that restaurant!" or "I stayed in that hotel on my honeymoon!" or other fond remembrances.

So far richard has available in 3-d lithographs over 30 cities including New York; San Francisco; Las Vegas; Hollywood; New Orleans; Washington CD; Seattle; Palm Beach, Florida; Chicago; Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills; Lahina, Maui and Waikki to name just a few.