Richard Henry Guggenheimer

New York Times 13 March 1977

RICHARD GUGGENHEIMER, AN ARTIST AND EDUCATOR Richard H. Guggenheimer, artist, writer and for 30 years chairman of the art department at Briarcliff College, died Friday at Mount Sinai Hospital. He was 70 years old and lived at 784 Park Avenue.

Mr. Guggenheimer staged more than a score of one‐man exhibitions, most of them in New York and Paris.

A New York Times reviewer once described Mr. Guggenheimer's work as “fresh and pleasing” with an “explicit decorative quality.”

The review went on to point out that his canvases “seem to divide into two groups: beautifully realized stereoscopic still‐lifes and lyric landscapes.”

“Paradoxically,” the review said, “the artist seems freer in the more confining still‐lifes and more constrained in the landscapes.”

Mr. Guggenheimer was the author of three books on art: “Sight and Insight,” “Creative Vision” and “New Dimensions of Destiny.”

He was a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Sorbonne.

Surviving is his wife, the former Marjorie May Sidenberg.