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Please Note: This website is closing soon. Please visit my new website: www.connorsfinearts.com
or click on link below:
Connors Fine Arts Studio
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| 22 x 18 inches, 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 decade, 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 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 at which 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.
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 J.H. Newman [Detail] |
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| 48 x 36 inches, oil on linen, 2009, The Philadelphia Oratory. |
To Contact Patrick Connors:
Copyright 2009 Patrick Connors
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