The Artist

Rick Reeves was born in Tampa, FL in 1959. He began taking art lessons at an early age, from a local artist, in the traditional academic way of the 19th century. This was something not taught in most of the colleges in the 1970’s which focused on abstract and the “everything is art” mentality. However, it was the Brandywine school of Howard Pyle that led Rick into the arts as a career. The Brandywine school was a style of illustration founded by Pyle at the end of the 19th century. The works produced there were widely published in adventure novels, magazines, and romances in the early 20th century.

Rick graduated with a degree in Studio Art from Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL. He also studied at Southampton College in Long Island, NY and the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. Upon graduation he worked for a short time at an advertising agency before striking out on his own as a Freelance Illustrator. He then turned his focus to fine art that brought about his interest in historical subject matter. In 1988 Rick started his own publishing company, Collector Historical Prints, Inc. Rick then published under Paramount Press of Jamestown, NY, American Art and Antiques of Virginia and American Historical Art of Ft. Leavenworth, KS.

Rick’s art, prints and posters hang proudly in the U.S. Army War College, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the National Guard Bureau, the Cavalry Museum, the 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum, the 2-505 Parachute Infantry Regimental Headquarters, the 307th Engineer Battalion, 25th Infantry (L) Division Headquarters, the Atlanta Cyclorama, the Florida Sports Hall of Fame and countless public and private collections throughout the country.

Currently on display at the Tampa Bay History Center, Rare Prints Gallery, Booth Western Art Museum and the Carnton Plantation.

His studio is at the house he shares with his wife Sharon in the historic Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa, FL. Rick has three adult  children, Jackson, Katie, and Molly.