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Peonies, 22" x 18", oil on linen, 2003, Private Collection

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)

     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 and portrait painting at the Graduate School of the New York Academy of Art; drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and, in the past, linear perspective at Studio 126 and at Jacob Collins's Studio 69. He has recently joined the faculty at the Grand Central Academy of Art.
      He has lectured at Yale University Art Gallery, Water Street Atelier, Drexel School of Medicine, Classical America, Philadelphia Chapter, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He is the published author of 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."
 

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.

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Contemplative Young Man, 18" x 14", oil on linen, 2005, Private Collection.

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Portrait of C. B-R, 12 x 11 inches, oil on linen, 2008, Private Collection.

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