Patrick Connors is a 1980 graduate of the Certificate Program of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he studied primarily under Arthur DeCosta and where he 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 in both private and public collections. In recent years his paintings were exhibited at the New York Academy of Art, National Academy of Design, Butler Institute of American Art, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Somerville Manning Gallery, Meredith Long & Company, and Hirschl & Adler Galleries. In 2002 he 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 has lectured and presently teaches painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and linear perspective and portrait painting at the Graduate School of the New York Academy of Art. With Anthony Visco he founded the Courtyard Studio, a private summer program for classical studies in sculpture, drawing, and painting. Also, he has lectured at the Yale University Art Gallery, Classical America, Philadelphia Chapter; and the Water Street Atelier. He is the author of The Oil Sketch and Representationist Thought in the Philadelphia School of Painting, The Chiaroscuro: The Ambiguity of Gloom, and Through the Picture Plane: The Poetry in the Pictorial Space of Thomas Eakins. He is represented by Arcadia Gallery, Manhattan, and Pierrepont Fine Arts, Oxford, UK.