JOAN CARPENTER who wrote the introduction to this mono graph is well-acquainted with the work of Jean Richardson and with the cultural and artistic history of the artist's western her-itage. Author of the book, Great American West: 9th Century American Art of the Frontier and associate of the Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma,Carpenter has lectured widely on both Western and European art. She contributes regularly to Southwest Art magazine and to the Gilcrease Magazine and is currently at work on a book to be published by the University of Oklahoma Press on the art history of the American West. Carpenter holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Fine Arls, New York Universitv.