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Richard Yarde (1939–2011) was an American artist and professor, who specialized in watercolor painting. Yarde taught art at Boston University, Wellesley College, Amherst College, the Massachusetts College of Art, Mount Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts at Boston. From 1999–2011, he was a professor of art at University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Portrait of courtesy of University of Massachusetts
Richard Yarde worked in the Alexander studio.
Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…