Ric Haynes
The Shape of Things
01. She Walks While History Rides, 2025, acrylic, 30 x 40 inches, $850.00
o2. Ferry-man Lost in a Reverie, 2025-2026, acrylic, 48 x 36 inches, $1100.00
o3. Unexpected Arrivals, 2024-2025, acrylic, 24 x 48 inches, $1000.00
04. Cigar, 2024, acrylic, 30 x 48 inches, $1000.00
05. Determination, 2025, acrylic, 30 x 48 inches, $1100.00
06. They Brought What They Could Carry, 2025, acrylic, 36 x 48 inches, $1100.00
07. Going Home, 2025-2026, acrylic, 48 x 36 inches, $1100.00
08. Secret Vow Under Yellow Moon, 2025, acrylic, 36 x 48 inches, $1100.00
09. If Only I Could Fly, 2024-2026, acrylic, 30 x 60 inches, $1200.00
10. Backyard Rocket, 2011, linocut print, print 14 x 22 inches, frame 28 x 20.25 inches, $450.00
11. Big Rocket, 2011, oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches, $350.00
12. Jet Rocket, 2011, oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches, $350.00
13. Guston’s Rocket, 2011, oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches, $350.00
14. Bouquets, 2025-2026, acrylic, 20 x 56 inches, $1000.00
15. The Broken Tree House, 2025, acrylic, 30 x 24 inches, $800.00
Ric Haynes Biography
Ric Haynes was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1945. The York Interstate fair was a major resource for his imagination, which enriched his curiosity of a larger universe than York County. A trip to NYC at an early age to discover the American Museum of Natural History opened many doors that are felt throughout his creative life.
Fireflies and constellations were more important than math, and school up to art school was painful. He spent a major amount of time in study hall in high school reading the great book. Collected postcards and wonder what it would be like to be somewhere else.
He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art on a Ford Foundation for four years. At the time the liberal arts became a backbone to his studies , as well of his encounter with Reba Stewart, Robert Moskowitz, Salvatore Scarpitta, Babe Shapiro and Peter Milton.
He studied at The University of Pennsylvania in the Fine Arts Department but later became involved in archival work with the photographic collection of The University Museum at Penn.
Haynes became an Creative Arts therapist after graduating form Lesley University. He worked in mental health with Veterans, Schizophrenics and adolescents. He taught the arts, Creative arts therapy and film at Endicott College, Beverly, Ma for 19 years.
Ric Haynes is represented in many private and public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago Il, The Victoria Albert Museum , London, UK.
He lives in Mashpee, on Cape Cod with his wife Lorraine who is a textile artist.