Richard Amundsen is a painter and sculptor of wildlife. Being an avid outdoorsman, he uses hunting, fishing, dog training, picture taking, and research trips to further study the animals he represents through his art.

Raised and schooled in San Francisco, he learned as a child to appreciate the wonders of nature. For the first part of his life, he created art primarily for magazine publication. Later in his life, he moved to Montana to become a fine arts painter, and settled near Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, where there was abundant wildlife for him to study.

He presented a commissioned painting of Teddy Roosevelt in the high country to (at the time) President Richard Nixon, from which he earned the Presidential S...