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 in Oklahoma City. 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) Mr Hahn named Patrick McDonnnell as one of his top five students.
Awarded Hallmark Cards student scholarship to attend the Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida.
Awarded Ringling School of Art Faculty scholarship
Studied at both the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, Paris France
Awarded a Harriet Hale Wooley scholarship by the Fondation des Etats-Unis (US Foundation in Paris) 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) in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France that houses an incredible collection of Rembrandt, Goya artist proofs and stages of famous prints.
Official copyist at Louvre museum in Pairs where he copied paintings by Mantegna, Rembrandt and Ingres
Passed different Beaux Arts examinations 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 from the University of Texas, in medical illustration. Attended medical courses with medical students, including gross anatomy with dissections. Worked for over 27 years for doctors, medical schools and medical editors and companies. Samples of his medical illustrations are here>
Accepted in a PhD program in communication (Combined program at University of Montreal, University of Quebec in Montreal, University of Concordia).
Conducted workshops and seminars all over the world.
More here on academic training and Maroger
Artists who influenced his work: Patricia Barton, Mr. Jean Lefevre, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas, Edward Hopper, John Singer Sargent, Sorolla and Sir William Russell Flint, Models who influenced artists: Cecilia Green
Exhibited
While in high school accepted in New Mexico State Fair Arts Exhibition; portrait of Marcia 1969-1970
Exhibited 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
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, Paris 1975
Selected one man shows:
One man shows at Stanley Sadler Gallery Louisiana 1972-74
Hallmark Cards Gallery, Kansas City 1975
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School Dallas Texas 1979
One Man show at Maison Mansard, Paris France 1987
Exhibited in one man shows Montreal Canada: Gallery 55, Paragraph Book store, Il Sole Restaurant, Art NDG Gallery, Shodan Gallery, Donati Arte Gallery...
One may show in Péniche Daphné, Paris France
Exhibited work in group shows in New York City at the Olympia and York Gallery, Art Director's Club, and Museum of American Illustration NewYork City.
Invited to group exhibition in 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
More information on Jacques Maroger:
Examples of Maroger's paintings
