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Jacob Collins: Still Lifes and Studio Views

Still Lifes and Studio Views features 20 new oil paintings, including 10 oil studies in which Collins depicts artists at the easel at the Grand Central Atelier – an institution that Collins established to train artists in Classical traditions. Also featured in the exhibition are a selection of newly painted Still Lifes, and a self-portrait, rendered in the artist’s particular mode of realism for which he is widely celebrated.

The atelier studies serve as a testament to the artist’s mastery in the representation of natural light, shadow, texture, …