Born and raised in New York City, Jacob Collins is a champion of
Classical Realism, a return to the 19th-century Academic technique that
is counter to abstraction. Among his portrait commission subjects
are U.S.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, J. Paul Getty Jr., and
George H.W. Bush.
As a child, he showed the tendencies on which he has based his art
career. He began sketching Old Master pictures in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, where his grandmother us (showing 500 of 2404 characters). |
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