# Richard Alan Schmid artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:33:56.492Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Realism
- Common media: Painting

## About Richard Alan Schmid

Richard Alan Schmid (1934–2021), commonly listed as Richard Schmid, was an American painter identified in public reference sources as a realist artist. Getty ULAN and VIAF connect the fuller name Richard Alan Schmid with the shorter form used by Wikidata and Wikipedia, helping distinguish the artist across catalogues and auction records. The available sources establish his identity, nationality, lifespan, and association with realist painting, but they provide little detail about his training, chronology, named bodies of work, or recurring subjects. Collectors may therefore encounter records under either Richard Alan Schmid or Richard Schmid. For this page, those names are treated as referring to the same person, while claims about particular paintings, dates, subjects, or artistic periods should be checked against the individual object and its documented history.

## Common works and media

Authority records identify Richard Schmid as a painter, making paintings the only work type established by this source pack. The collected sources do not provide enough evidence to characterize his usual supports, techniques, subjects, print editions, sculptures, drawings, or named series. Any such classification should be based on the individual object and documented catalogue or auction information.

## Market and appraisal context

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7328920
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/32449373/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500055498
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98050007
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Schmid