Langdon Quin is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He lives with his family in New York City 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.
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 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.
Quin’s paintings are representational in nature, and synthetic in their development. His imagery is derived from direct observation, invention and memory. His subjects are landscape; interiors; figures; still life; or combinations thereof. His intention in arrangement of the forms of these subjects may be the simple wish to observe and specify their particularities, or the desire to explore the formal, allegorical or narrative possibilities that their relationship suggests.
His preferred medium is oil painting, but he is also very involved with drawing, both as finished work and as supplemental investigation for painting ideas. He employs various traditional drawing media (graphite, charcoal, pastel, etc.) as well as water based works on paper (watercolor, gouache, ink wash, etc.) for such purposes.