Patrick Antonelle -The American Impressionist

An "Artist For All Seasons" and referred to often by art critics as an "American Renoir", Patrick Antonelle is the foremost impressionist painter of our century, to quote Manhattan Arts magazine. They further state, …his style is soft, intimate, nostalgic, and balanced. He accomplishes this with his colorist abilities and his keen architectural eye through a blizzard of pointillist strokes that activate the surfaces of his art. The changing seasons in Central Park and Manhattan’s street scenes of his native and much revered New York City have become Patrick’s trademark.

Drawing from the majestic New York City skyline, Patrick Antonelle imbues the powerful skyscrapers of a modern city with nature’s dressing of winter’s snow and spring’s blossoms. In "Nocturnal New York", depicting the Flatiron Building in winter of 1906, he takes an evening scene and magically, with the use of color, dissolves the darkness into watery reflections on the rain-slicked street.


Antonelle captures all the seasons and the poignant nostalgic moments are brought to life by combining nature and architecture. The result is beautiful harmony. In "Winter On Fifth Avenue", the artist rolls back the clock and captures a time in Manhattan when horses and buggies, vintage cars, and top hats were the fashion. With such precision, and a flair for romanticism, he paints a picture in which we can escape; we can fantasize about a time when the main thoroughfare of New York City was intimate and charming. With every brush stroke, he has managed to eliminate an suggestions of city danger and stress, and has filled the atmosphere with optimism and joy.

The chromatic magic that makes Antonelle’s paintings so internationally appealing translates equally well into the lithographic medium. Noted collectors of his work are: Liza Minnelli, the late Frank Sinatra, Edward Koch, Rudolph Giuliani, Ivana Trump, Celeste Holm, Agnes DeMille, Regis Philbin, Michael Feinstein, the late Leonard Bernstein, Shirley Bassey, Michele Marsh of CBS, and many more luminaries.

His corporate collectors include: Citicorp, Panasonic Japan, Apple Computers, The Meredith Corporation, Better Homes and Gardens, New York Hospital for Special Surgery, Delta Airlines-JFK Airport, American Management Systems, Patek Phillipe-Geneva Switzerland, the New York Stock Exchange, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Deutsche Bank, Culpepper Consulting Group, Sharp Capital, Statewide Title Inc., Paine Webber, Bear Stearns, Advest Inc., Prudential Securities, and others worldwide.

His work speaks directly to the heart with his inexhaustible store of wonder. Yet for all of his lack of pretension, Patrick is regarded as a highly sophisticated artist. With palette in hand, Patrick’s versatile style can transform a paved metropolis into a vision of beauty. In fact, his love of nature is evident and imbued in his panoramic landscapes and floral gardens. His message to all is "reflect and appreciate all that surrounds you in nature.