Patrick Connors

I am an easel painter who lives and works primarily in Philadelphia. Landscape has become my preferred subject matter. I make regular painting excursions Fairmount Park in Philadelphia and north on the Delaware River in Bucks County, PA. Farther afield, I travelled with my french easelbox to Manhattan, NY; Wien, OS; Oxford, UK; and Roma, IT.
I graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, my work is exhibited internationally and included in private and public collections. Grants & fellowships include an Oxford University Summer Residency Fellowship in painting and anatomy; a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant for painting; the Samuel D. Gross/Thomas Eakins Award for Significant Contributions to Medicine and its Surrounding Culture by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; the select alternate for a Senior Research Fulbright Scholarship for Italy; Independence Foundation Grant, and a Franz & Virginia Bader Fund Grant.

Among the institutions at which I have lectured are Yale University Art Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Drexel School of Medicine. I have taught at the New York Academy of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Institute of Classical Architec...

Graduate:
1980 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila., PA, USA

1982 University of Pennsylvania, Phila., PA, USA.

A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, my work is exhibited internationally and included in private and public collections. Grants & fellowships include an Oxford University Summer Residency Fellowship in painting and anatomy; a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant for painting; the Samuel D. Gross/Thomas Eakins Award for Significant Contributions to Medicine and its Surrounding Culture by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; the select alternate for a Senior Research Fulbright Scholarship for Italy; and a Franz & Virginia Bader Fund Grant.

Among the institutions at which I have lectured are Yale University Art Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Drexel School of Medicine. I have taught at the New York Academy of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art: Manhattan and Rome Programs.

Articles on my artwork can be accessed on my website at: http://connorsfinearts.com/published-articles/

For over 30 years my drawings and paintings have been exhibited internationally in solo or group venues including the following museums: National Academy of Design, Butler Institute of American Art, Woodmere Art Museum, New York Academy of Art, Independence Seaport Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.The following private galleries have presented my artwork in solo or groups exhibitions: Pierrepont Fine Arts [Oxford, UK], Wendt Gallery [Laguna Beach, USA], Gross McCleaf Gallery [Philadelphia, USA], Principle Gallery [Washington, DC, USA], Arcadia Gallery [Manhattan, USA], The Kitchen [Manhattan, USA], and Hirschl & Adler Galleries [Manhattan, USA].