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Larry R. Collins Provincetown Art Association and Museum Opening Reception: Friday, August 27, 8-10pm Larry Collins’s precocious beginnings (under the tutelage of a charismatic art teacher, his paintings and drawings had been shown in more than a half-dozen museums and university galleries by his seventeenth year), and his time as a studio assistant to a painter and two printmakers, provide insight into his creative trajectory. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma and the Massachusetts College of Art, the value of his artistic training became starkly evident to Collins during the Vietnam War, when he was pulled from an infantry line company to become an Army combat artist and photographer. On his return from Vietnam, the artist moved to New York City, where he worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, followed by a career as a teaching artist. Collins moved to Provincetown in 1993 to concentrate on his artwork. He became Director of the Driskel Gallery at the Schoolhouse Center for Art and Design, a gallery specializing in vintage photography and antiques, and he has continued that tradition for the past 7 years at Larry Collins Fine Art. The artist returned to Vietnam in 2009, and will discuss how the trip moved him to create a memorial work, A Shau Valley, one of the most recent paintings in the exhibition. Larry Collins: Finding Light This lecture is part of PAAM's Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series -- presenting informative gallery talks, panel discussions and lectures in conjuction with current exhibitions. FSL lectures occur throughout the summer and fall, and are always free and open to the public.
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