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Scott is known for his classically influenced history paintings and narrative portraits. His current body of work explores the historical origins and legacy of systemic and social discrimination as well as gun violence in American Culture. The first major piece in the series "When the Man Comes Around" is in the permanent collection of the Georgia Museum of Art. His largest work to date, "Hearts of Men" was unveiled at Paul Booth Gallery in New York City August 2016. His second major work "New Amsterdam", which traces the legacy of slavery in America from the Dutch settlers to mass incarceration, was unveiled at Spalding Nix Fine Art in Atlanta, GA in February 2018.

Scott has designed coins for the United States Mint: notably, the 2016 Fort Moultrie quarter. as well as the private American Mint. Richard Scott was also the first to design an African American Liberty for the U.S. Mint's 2015 High Relief coin.

Scott pursued a BFA in painting in the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, followed by an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art. After graduation he worked for two years as a painter for Jeff Koons, then three years as a studio assistant to Odd Nerdrum in Norway and Paris, France. Scott worked for the United States Mint from 2014-2018.

In 2010, Scott told the New York Times that Facebook was censoring classical paintings of nudes, which had been deleted from the accounts of many painters as well as established institutions such as the New York Academy of Art.

Richard T. Scott (born 1980) is an American history painter and writer living and working in the Hudson Valley, New York. His paintings are in the permanent collections of museums in North America and Europe. He was formerly a member of the Artistic Infusion Program, a group of artists and illustrators contracted to design coins and Congressional Medals for the United States Mint.