Patrick McDonnell is a figurative artist, trained in the old master's techniques elaborated by Jacques Maroger head of the Louvre museum laboratories. Jacques Maroger discovered the secret of how old master painters used mastic resin and bee's wax with oil paint.

Studied pastel painting with Edith and Richard Goetz at Goetz Art School. Here is a link to their work.

Studied oil painting in France, Germany and New Mexico using the Jacques Maroger Medium with Mr. Siegfried Hahn ( Mr Hahn was awarded the Royal Academy’s Turner Gold Medal) and Mr. Howard Wexler (Parson's School of Design). See samples of Hahn's art.

Awarded Hallmark Cards student scholarship to attend the Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida.

Awarded Ringling School of Art Faculty scholarship

Studied in Paris at the only figurative studio in the Ecole des Beaux Arts and was accepted into the Paris Ecole des Arts Decoratifs after passing a concours. Studied with Jean Le Feuvre, retired academic teacher at Beaux Art.

Awarded The Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship by the Fondation des Etats-Unis to live and work in an Artist's studio in the Cité Universitaire, Paris France.

Created prints in the etching and engraving studio of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Studied the collection of the Cabinet des Estampes (Print Collection) of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France that houses an incredible collection of Rembrandt, Goya etc. artist proofs and prints.

Official copyist at Louvre museum in Pairs where he copied paintings by Mantegna, Rembrandt and Ingres

Passed different Beaux Arts examinations based on actually work done in studios; History of Art, Artistic Morphology, Mosaic, Fresco, etc... to obtain an equivalence of a French Bachelor's Degree from the University of Paris.

Awarded a Master of Arts degree in medical illustration from the University of Texas,Health Science Center in Dallas. Attended medical courses with medical students, including gross anatomy with dissections. Worked as Professional Medical Illustrator for over 30 years for doctors, medical schools and medical editors and companies. Samples of his medical illustrations here>

Studied in a PhD program in communication (Combined program at University of Montreal, University of Quebec in Montreal, University of Concordia).

 

Exhibited

While in high school, work accepted in New Mexico State Fair Arts Exhibition; portrait of Marcia 1970

Work accepted in Sarasota Art Association Exhibits, Sarasota Florida

New Mexico Woman's club art exhibit, awarded Hallmark Cards scholarship 1970.

Student Exhibition award for drawing, Ringling School of Art.

Awarded Ringling School of Art Faculty Scholarship 1971

Private commission to do paintings of Wings of Silver, Antique Airplanes 1970-71

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Nouvelles Acquisitions Cabinet des Estampes 1972 -75

Private commission to do paintings of Mas du Clos Collection of Racing Ferraris 1973-74

Harriet Hale Wooley scholarship to study and live in Paris 1974-75

Exhibition Maison des Etats Unis, Cité Universitaire Paris 1975

One man shows:

Stanley Sadler Gallery Louisiana 1972-74
Hallmark Cards Gallery, Kansas City 1975
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School Dallas Texas 1979

Maison Mansard, Paris France 1987
Exhibited in Montreal Canada; Gallery 55, Paragraph Book store, Il Sole Restaurant, Art NDG Gallery, Shodan Gallery, Donati Arte Gallery...

Péniche Daphné, Paris France 2008

Exhibited in group shows i

In New York City at the Olympia and York Gallery, New York Art Director's Club, Museum of American Illustration of Society of Illustrators.

Invited to show work in group exhibition at Children's Book Fair in Bologna Italy, and John Ruskin School of Art, Oxford England

Work in private collections and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Conduct workshops and seminars all over the world.
More on academic training and Jacques Maroger here>