WARREN BROWN PRINDLE
321 Gay Street, Sharon, Connecticut 06069
wbprindle@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Representational painter working in landscape, figurative, and imaginative realism. Professional exhibiting artist, educator, and lecturer with more than four decades of exhibition experience in museums, galleries, and juried exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. Work is represented in museum, corporate, institutional, and private collections.
EDUCATION
- Northwestern State University of Louisiana — Master of Arts, Studio Painting (2009)
- Northeastern Illinois University — Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art (1986)
- American Academy of Art — Associate of Arts, Painting & Drawing (1985)
- Private Study: John Michael Angel, Bruno Surdo, Fred Berger
- Advanced Portrait Painting with Silvius Krecu, Silvermine School of Art, New Canaan, CT (2024)
- Ongoing museum studies through direct copying of Old Master paintings.
TEACHING, LECTURES & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- St. James Place, Great Barrinton, MA – Guest Artist for live painting demo
- Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA — Workshop Instructor, 'Putting on the Ritz: Rhythm and Gesture in Figure Drawing' (2025)
- American Academy of Art, Chicago, IL — Instructor of Life Drawing & Anatomy (1990–1996)
- Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL — Guest Lecturer, 'Old Master Painting Techniques' (1989)
- Kent Art Association, Kent, CT — Juror, Annual Exhibition (2021)
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
- Founders Award — National Oil Painters Society
- Award of Excellence — Oil Painters of America
- Union League Civic & Art Foundation Award
- Graham Center Museum Purchase Award
- Best of Show (Oil) — Kent Art Association
- Award of Excellence — Elk Grove Village Art Association
- Lynne Borst Memorial Award
- First Honorable Mention — Galesburg Civic Art Center
- Jasper Johns / The Foundation for Community Arts, instituted The Warren Prindle Visual Arts Scholarship, an $80,000 award for collegiate art studies.
PUBLIC, CORPORATE & INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
- American Academy of Art — Chicago, IL
- Bezazian Public Library — Chicago, IL
- Broadacre Development Company — Chicago, IL
- David Hoy & Sons Fine Art — Los Angeles, CA
- Gallery Sternberg — Chicago, IL
- Graham Center Museum — Wheaton, IL
- Kirkland & Ellis LLP — Chicago, IL
- Northern Illinois Medical Center — Rockford, IL
- Northwest Mental Health Center — Winsted, CT
- Salisbury School — Salisbury, CT
- Shelby Community Church — East Shelby, NY
- Surovek Fine Arts — Palm Beach, FL
- Wisdom House — Litchfield, CT
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Classical Realism Quarterly
- Chicago Tribune
- Chicago Reader
- New Orleans Art Review
- New Orleans Times-Picayune
- New York Daily News
- Caribbean Life
- Waterbury Republican-American
- Taconic Weekly
- Lakeville Journal
- River North News
- Natchitoches Times
- WBEZ Radio — Artistic License Interview
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Carol Robinson Gallery — New Orleans, Louisiana
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2024 — The Good Gallery, Kent, CT
- 2023 — The Kearcher-Monsell Gallery, Falls Village, CT
- 2000 — Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
- 1998 — Trichet Gallery, Litchfield, CT
- 1998 — Garuda Gallery, Sharon, CT
- 1995 — Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
- 1993 — River Running Gallery, Falls Village, CT
- 1991 — Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
- 1990 — Dorothea Thiel Gallery, South Holland, IN
- 1988 — Interlaken Gallery, Lakeville, CT
SELECTED TWO- & THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
- 1996 — Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1995 — Paris–New York–Kent Gallery, Kent, CT
- 1993 — East Brook Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
- 1990 — Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
- 1987 — James Hunt Barker Gallery, Nantucket, MA
- 1987 — Judson College Fine Arts Gallery, Elgin, IL
SELECTED MUSEUM, INVITATIONAL & JURIED EXHIBITIONS
- 2026 — The Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
- 1997 — Gunn Museum, Washington, CT
- 1996 — Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1995 — Graham Center Museum, Wheaton, IL
- 1995 — Oscar Howe Art Center, Mitchell, SD
- 1994 — Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition, Park Ridge, IL
- 1994 — Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
- 1994 — Women's Club of Evanston, Evanston, IL
- 1993 — Colfax Cultural Center, South Bend, IN
- 1992 — Greenwich Gallery, London, England
- 1992 — National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, Osage Beach, MO
- 1992 — Arthur Baer Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1991 — Museum W.W. International, Chautauqua, NY
- 1990 — Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
- 1988 — Batavia Society of Arts National Exhibition, Batavia, NY
- 1988 — Degas Pastel Society Biennial National Exhibition, New Orleans, LA
- 1987 — Western Illinois University Art Gallery, Macomb, IL
MURALS
- Boston Men's Club — Boston, MA
- First Evangelical Free Church — Chicago, IL