Social History of Art

Richard McBee is a painter of Biblical subject matter and writer on Jewish Art. He was Program Director of the Alliance of Figurative Artists in the 1980’s and member of the Biblical Painters Group. In 1991 he helped found the American Guild of Judaic Art. Since 2000 he has written a column on the Jewish Arts for the Jewish Press and continues to exhibit paintings, lecture and curate Jewish art exhibitions. In 2008 he was a founding member of the Jewish Art Salon His new website; richardmcbee.com, exhibits over 300 of his artworks and 250 of his Jewish Art reviews.