They were requested to portray a combination of Black history and themes from the Bible.
Titles include "Creation", "I Have a Dream", "The Lord smote the firstborn in the land of Egypt" and "God has chosen the weak to confound the strong".
[3] Watson's work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s–1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.
[4] In 2021, the African American Museum in Philadelphia held an exhibition of his work entitled Portals+Revelations – Richard J. Watson Beyond Realities.
[5] His work is in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts[6] and the Petrucci Family Foundation.