E. P. Richardson

In 1964 the Philadelphia Museum of Art gave Franklin Watkins a retrospective exhibition which showed his versatility and the wide range of his subjects. In. this article the director of the H. F. Du Pont Winterthur Museum talks with the painter about the way he reaches his decisions and the methods he prefers.

A move from Detroit, where he had been director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, to Delaware made E. P. RICHARDSON and his painter-wife neighbors of Andrew Wyeth at Chadds Ford. He gathered the illuminating detail of this appraisal from conversations during the past winter. Mr. Richardson is now director of the H. F. du Pont Winterthur Museum.