Langdon Quin is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He lives with his family in the Hudson Valley east of Troy, New York and in central Italy near the town of Gubbio.
He is a representational painter who has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. Since receiving his MFA in Painting from Yale University in 1976, he has had numerous one person shows in galleries on both the east and west coasts. These include the Kraushaar Galleries and the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery in New York, the Alpha Gallery in Boston and Hackett Freedman Gallery in San Francisco. His imagery is derived from both observation and invention. His subjects are landscape, interiors, figure and still life, or combinations thereof.
He is the recipient of many awards including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and two Ingram Merrill Foundation grants. He is also a member elect of the National Academy of Design in New York City. His paintings and works on paper are in prominent public and private collections both here and abroad. In addition, he has had a distinguished academic career teaching both undergraduates and graduate students in various university settings and professional art programs throughout the northeast. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Painting and Drawing at the University of New Hampshire.