Richard Maury was born in 1935 in Washington, DC, and died in 2020. He was educated at the University of Maryland, The Corcoran School in Washington, DC and The Art Student’s League of New York, but it wasn’t until he attended L’Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy in 1960 that he encountered the artistic inspiration that would drive his work and life for the next five decades. He fell in love in Florence, both with the ineffable magic of Italy and with his wife, Anne (a botanical illustrator and painter), whom he met on his third day in Florence. Maury lived and worked in Florence, his first solo show in the Galleria Artecasa in Pisa. His work has since been shown widely in Europe and America, with one-man exhibitions at the National Press Club in Washington, DC; the Medici Gallery in London, England; the Bergen County Museum in New Jersey; and other galleries. His work is in the permanent collections of the Arkansas Art Center, the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York; the Flint Institute of Arts in Michigan; the Fogg Art Museum in Massachusetts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.