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Richard Alan Masters (born August 5, 1955) is a graphic designer, studio artist, and coin designer.
Academic career
Masters graduated from the University of Iowa art school where he received a BA, MA, and MFA. He subsequently moved to Wisconsin where he worked as a freelance illustrator and as a professor of graphic design at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where he was selected for the SNC Professor of International Relations Endowed Professorship Award.
Studio art career
Masters works most often in graphite or colored pencil, though he has worked in other media. His work is often described as painstakingly detailed, with subject matter ranging from nature scenes and architectural representations to the somber aspects of city life and homelessness. His works have been shown at invited and juried exhibitions throughout the world, and have won numerous awards, including the Allied Artists of American top award, the Audrey Love Memorial Award in 2021.
Coin designs
In 2004, Masters became an inaugural member of the United States Mint's Artistic Infusion Program as a Master designer. This program brought artists with expertise in visual arts to enrich and elevate the design of coins for the US Mint. He applied to the program as a lifelong coin collector. A prolific designer, his designs were selected for over 30 coins and medals. As of 2024, he is still an active member of the program, and the only remaining original member.
His first design was the reverse of the Nebraska quarter for the State Quarters Program in 2006. His designs went on to garner awards such as the Coin of the Year award for best contemporary event in 2009 for his Little Rock Central High School Desegregation silver dollar design, an accomplishment repeated with the 2021 American Liberty High Relief Gold Coin, winning the award for best gold coin.
One of his designs, featuring a Samoa flying fox, a species of fruit bat, representing the National Park of American Samoa, was central to conspiracy theories that the United States government was involved in the dissemination of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. This theory was thoroughly debunked, but gave the coin design some short-lived infamy.
Personal life
Masters retired from teaching in 2015, and now lives in New York City with his wife, MeeWha Alana Lee. He continues to pursue studio art and exhibits his work broadly, garnering many honors for his works.
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