Larry Collins is available to advise collectors in the purchase of works of art as they build large collections or obtain single pieces. He has consulted closely with collectors and museums obtaining important works by Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mike Disfarmer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and many others. Collins has arranged acquisitions for the permanent collections of the International Center of Photography, the photograph collections at the New York Public Library, the Worcester Art Museum, and other institutions.

Gallery goers in Provincetown have come to expect the highest quality exhibitions of early photography from Larry Collins who was previously Director of the Driskel Gallery and Curator of Vintage Photography at the Schoolhouse Center in Provincetown, MA.

He has curated many solo and group exhibitions which have included work by Allen Ginsberg, George H. Seeley, Wilhelm von Glöeden, Lewis Hine, Robert Capa, William Gedney, Ruth Orkin, Walker Evans, James VanDerZee, Mark Shaw, Thomas Eakins, Edweard Muybridge, Lee Friedlander, Edward Steichen, and many others. His shows for James Bidgood and Annemarie Heinrich were the first U. S. solo exhibitions for both these internationally known artists. In addition he has produced shows of war photography, 19th century painted tintypes, early circus photography, Camera Work photogravures, daguerreotypes, and vernacular images.

Collins has been a dealer in antiques and art for over two decades and has exhibited in major shows in New York City and throughout New England. His curated exhibitions of fine objects have included Victorian majolica, sculpture by Madelaine Park, and vintage Beat memorabilia.  He has been a subject in articles on photography and collecting in Martha Stewart Living, Shutterbug, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, and Provincetown Arts. He has published essays on painting and photography for Provincetown Arts and has illustrated books, collaborating with Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Eileen Myles.

Larry Collins holds an MFA degree in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, has been a professor of art at the University of New Hampshire, Massachusetts College of Art, and Montserrat College of Art. He is a painter and photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally.  His paintings and drawings are in the permanent collections of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Boston Public Library, and other institutions. He was an infantryman and a combat artist in Vietnam and his war photographs are in the permanent collections of the Worcester Art Museum and the New York Public Library.

Larry Collins will be honored with a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 2010.

larry@larrycollinsfineart.com