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This is the Home Page of Patrick Connors
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| Peonies, 22" x 18", oil on linen, 2003, Private Collection |
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Patrick Connors is a 1980 graduate of the Certificate Program of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There, he studied primarily under Arthur DeCosta and was awarded the Perspective Prize.
In 1982 he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
His work is exhibited internationally and is included in both private
and public collections. In the past several years, he exhibited at the National Academy of Design, New York Academy of Art,
Butler Institute of American Art, Meredith Long & Company, Pierrepont Fine Arts, Arcadia Gallery, and Hirschl & Adler
Galleries.
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| Sycamore Canopy, 34 x 38 inches, oil on linen, 1997 (no longer extant) |
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In 2002, Connors was awarded an Oxford University
Summer Residency Fellowship in painting and anatomy. In 1998 he was awarded a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant for painting.
He was the select alternate for a Senior Research Fulbright Scholarship for Italy in 1999. He presently teaches linear perspective
at the Graduate School of the New York Academy of Art, Grand Central Academy of Art and Studio Incamminati; and drawing and
painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Among the institutions he has lectured are
Yale University Art Gallery, Water Street Atelier, Drexel School of Medicine, Classical America, Philadelphia Chapter, and
the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The following articles: "Through the Picture Plane: The Poetry in the Pictorial Space of Thomas
Eakins"; "The Chiaroscuro and the Ambiguity of Gloom"; "The Oil Sketch and Representationist Thought in the Philadelphia School
of Painting"; "The Art of Sacred Devotion," and "The Legacy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts" have been published
in various journals.
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| Portrait of C. B-R, 12 x 11 inches, oil on linen, 2008, Private Collection. |
Connors has successfully completed numerous private and public commissions for portrait, figure, landscape, still life, and
mural. For inquires please use the contact information below.
| The Venerable JHNewman [Detail] |
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| 48 x 36 inches, oil on linen, Commissioned 2009. |
| Mural at 4th & Morris Streets, Philadelphia |
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| Left half of Mural in Progress. |
To Contact Patrick Connors:
Copyright 2009 Patrick Connors
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