“Portrait Artist Dick Zimmerman…he’s been everywhere, done everything, mastered every challenge and has settled comfortably in to a league of his own. Having been an art director for major magazines such as McCall’s and Redbook, a iconic photographer, a painter, artist, producer, director, ad maker, and media mogul, his world is many splendid and expansive but his focus is precise and true, and today has vaulted him into being recognised as America’s most prolific Portrait Artist.”
“Dick Zimmerman’s unique technology in portraiture captures and enhances the essence of the subject’s beingness. He refers to it as ‘capturing the subtleties of the soul.‘ His portraits communicate life and energy, captured in a preservation of a moment in time.”

-Palm Beach Society Magazine

-Anthony Spano,
Publisher, Home & Design Magazine

-M.M. Cloutier

“After creating several portraits of myself, numerous creative sessions, with multipal album covers for the last 27 years. Dick has always been the ultimate professional!”

-Barbara Mandrell
Nashville, TN

-Lisa Marie Presley

-Trace Edwards
Host of NBC’s “Daytime”

-Jeannine Stein / Los Angeles Herald

“Zimmerman had worked until 4 am on a new painting, boarded a plane that afternoon for Nashville, took a meeting, was in bed by 6am, up at 8, arranging location composition for Barbara Mandrell’s new album, winged his way back to Los Angeles, and arrived just after midnight Tuesday morning, now it was 11 am, same day, and he was in his Culver City studio in a meeting with Nicole Kidman to discuss a portrait for the June Issue of Hollywood Reporter Magazine.”…whew!

-Jim Brooks / Daily Breeze

-Bob Orth / Hollywood Profile Magazine

“Dick Zimmerman describes himself as “doing a little bit of everything,” creating paintings for advertising, fashion, album covers, celebrities. The New York University graduate spent a number of years painting in New York and London before coming to Los Angeles and Tampa 45 years ago.”

-Nancy Spiller / California Living Magazine

-Deb Miller / Features Editor
New York News Press

“Born in New York, Zimmerman studied painting at the Parsons School of Design, the School of Visual Arts, and New York University, with post-graduate studies at the Brooklyn Museum, with two of the top portrait artists in New York, Isaac and Moses Sawyer.”
-Hollywood Reporter, followed by 6 years of study in Paris & London.

“We would like to introduce you to Dick Zimmerman, our featured artist of the month. When asked what he likes most about his art, Dick says it is how his clients appreciate the finished painting and go out of their way to share their satisfaction with friends and relatives. He has achieved notoriety in both aspects of the visual arts (painting and photography). He photographs his own subjects, creating a reference photograph to be used for the painting himself. People tell him his paintings capture the subtleties of the person and their inward confidence. He’s been told that his art communicates the unique spark of life of the subject.

Dick is proud of his use of contemporary color and his range of styles in addition to his ability to communicate the reality of what is really there.

Dick started as a painter at the age of seven and because he wanted to paint portraits, he learned photography. This helped him to make his paintings deeper, more colorful and allowed him to better communicate with his subjects.

Dick started his training in the arts in New York’s School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at NY University. He also had advanced training at the Brooklyn Museum with the acclaimed Soyer brothers, followed by further training at the Musee D’Orsay in Paris, followed by 6 years at John’s Hodgkins. 

Dick has a unique ability to tune into the sensitivity and awareness of the visual world around him, and his portraits certainly reflect this awareness. “

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