Paul W. Richelson *74

Paul died Sept. 17, 2020, in Hemet, Calif.

He graduated from Yale in 1961 and earned a Ph.D. in art and archaeology from Princeton in 1974. Although he began his college studies with a career in science in mind, gallery visits and art history classes enabled him to visualize a future in the arts.

During his career Paul taught at several colleges and universities across the United States. His professional positions included chief curator of art at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., and for the last 27 years of his career, chief curator of collections at the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Ala., where he also served for a short time as interim director. During his time at the Mobile Museum of Art, because of his keen eye and expertise in the field, he was able to build an outstanding collection of decorative arts.

Paul retired in 2017 from the Mobile Museum of Art and relocated to Hemet in retirement.

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