New Britain Museum of American Art presents Jacob Collins: Recent Work

New Britain Museum of American Art presents Jacob Collins: Recent Work an exhibition on view Nov. 24, 2013.

The Museum presents Jacob Collins: Recent Work as part of a continued effort to make prominently visible the work of contemporary representational painters. The exhibition will feature the studiously crafted portraits, landscapes, and still lifes in oil and graphite by Collins, a leading figure in the revival of classical style of academic painting. Celebrated for his careful draftsmanship and finely-tuned eye, Collins invites viewers to appreciate meticulously recorded moments and details of daily life: the texture of hair, the softly rumpled bed sheet, the hardness of stone, the reflective nature of polished wood.

Collins studied painting at the New York Studio School, the New York Academy of Art, and the Art Students League. He has been commissioned to paint many luminaries, including J. Paul Getty, Jr. and President George H.W. Bush, and to paint the Forbes family properties in Normandy, France. He lives and works in New York City where he has founded the Water Street Atelier, The Grand Central Academy of Art, and the Hudson River Fellowship, all aimed toward classically training artists through rigorously painting from life, as well as studying technical perspective, anatomy, figure structure, painting methods and materials, and art history. As an artist, teacher and role model, Collins stands to preserve and advance the kind of painting that—while set in the present—exudes a sense of timelessness. www.nbmaa.org