Peter Corbin | Shooter's Hill Press

Peter Corbin is primarily known for sporting art landscapes, merging the natural wonders and elegant drama of the sporting life with the realm of fine art. His vivid sporting art scenes convey a sense of place, mood, and atmosphere in the light reflected off the water or the transmitted light through the clouds or trees revealing influences of the Hudson River School.

Corbin studied both painting and sculpture at Pomfret School, Wesleyan University where he received a B.A. with High Honors in Art, and the California College of Arts and Crafts. His greatest influences have been A.B. Frost, Ogden Pleissner and Winslow Homer.

He grew up in a home filled with fly rods, shotguns, Labrador Retrievers and the sporting art of A.B. Frost. Using his experiences as a life long angler and hunter he has traveled from The American West, British Columbia, South America, Europe, New Zealand and Africa recording portrait commissions for his clients’ love of the outdoors and places they cherish.

FAMILY BIOGRAPHY
Peter's wife, Lillian, manages the office as well as being a full time real estate agent for H. W. Guernsey Realtors here in Millbrook. Peter and Lillian have two grown children who are both avid fly fisherman.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Cascade Mountain Winery and Restaurant / Amenia, New York
Dana Corporation / St. Paul, Minnesota
Frazer Paper Company / Bridgeport, Connecticut
John Treiber Agency, Inc. / Mineola, New York
L.L. Bean Inc. / Freeport, Maine
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum / Wausau, Wisconsin
The National Art Museum of Sport / Indianapolis, Indiana
The Prudential, Giralda Farms / Madison, New Jersey

ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS
1993		The Culinary Institute of America / Hyde Park, New York
1989		An Artist's Creel, The American Museum of Fly Fishing / Manchester, Vermont
1977		The Suffolk Marine Museum / Islip, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007		The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada
2006		The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada
2005		Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau Wisconsin
2005		The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada
2004		The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada
2003		The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada
2002		The Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada
2000		Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts
1996		The Art of Fly Fishing - A Visual History, Academy of the Arts / Easton, Maryland
1994		Animals in Art, Brookfield Zoo, Chicago Zoological Society / Brookfield, Illinois
1994		The Sporting Life, The Nabisco Gallery / Hanover, New Jersey
1994		Prospectus 1994, American Academy of Equine Art, International Museum of the Horse, The Kentucky Horse Park / Lexington, Kentucky
1993		Pleissner Show, The National Art Museum of Sport / Indianapolis, Indiana
1992-1993		Art and the Animal, The Society of Animal Artists 1992-1993 National Tour / Roger Tory Petersen Institute of Natural History, Jamestown NY / The R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport LA / Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman OK / Oshkosh Public Museum, Oshkosh WI / Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Houston TX
1992		Naturally Drawn, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum / Wausau, Wisconsin
1991-1992		Art and the Animal, The Society of Animal Artists 1991-1992 National Tour / The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland OH / Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville VA / The Witte Museum, San Antonio TX / San Bernadino County Museums, Redlands CA / Anniston Museum of Natural History, Anniston AL
1991		Invited Artists Exhibition on Foxhunting Subjects, American Academy of Equine Art at the Museum of Hounds and Hunting, Morven Park / Leesburg, Virginia
1991		The World of Salmon, The American Museum of Fly Fishing / Manchester, Vermont
1988		The Art of Sport: Selections from the National Art Museum of Sport, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center / Colorado Springs, CO
1987		Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkley Woodson Art Museum, Wausau WI / Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester NY / Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA / Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago IL
1986		Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkley Woodson Art Museum, Wausau WI / Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA / The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara CA / Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu HI / The Beijing Natural History Museum, Beijing, China
1985		Angler's All: Man and His Environment Through 500 Years of Fly Fishing, The California Academy of Sciences / San Francisco, California
1984		Selections from the National Art Museum of Sport in Celebration of the Olympic Year, Fairfield University / Fairfield, Connecticut
1983		Wildlife in Art, National Wildlife Federation / Vienna, Virginia
1980		The Philadelphia Wildfowl Exposition, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

HONORS
1999		Atlantic Salmon Federation Print of the Year
1995		Atlantic Salmon Federation Artist of the Year
1995		Theodore Gordon Flyfishers' Print Artist
1993		The American Museum of Fly Fishing 25th Anniversary Print
1990		The Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum Print honoring Lee Wulff
1988		Atlantic Salmon Federation Artist of the Year
1988		National Ducks Unlimited Companion Artist
1987		Initial New York State Ducks Unlimited Sponsor Artist of the Year; Sponsor Artist 1989, 1988
1984		Waterfowl Festival Cover Artist / Easton, Maryland
1983		Initial New York State Ducks Unlimited Artist of the Year
1982		Initial New York State Wild Turkey Stamp
1981		Atlantic Salmon Federation Artist of the Year
1977		Initial Long Island Wetlands and Waterfowl League Stamp
1977		Drawings for the White House under President Carter

BOOKS
2005		PETER CORBIN/An Artist's Creel, essay by Tom Davis and foreword by John Merwin, published by Hudson Hills Press, Manchester, Vermont
1998		A Company of Anglers, edited by Austin McK. Francis, privately published for the Anglers Club of New York
1996		West of Key West, edited by John Cole and Hawk Pollard, Stackploe Books, Mechanicsville, Pennsylvania
1994		The Bonefish, edited by George Reiger, Meadow Run Press, Stone Harbor, New Jersey
1993		The Silver King, edited by George Reiger, Meadow Run Press, Stone Harbor, New Jersey
1992		The Starlight Creek Angling Society, Harry Middleton, Meadow Run Press, Stone Harbor, New Jersey
1990		The Compleat Scwiebert: A Treasury of Trout Fishing from Around the World, by Ernest Schwiebert, Truman Talley Books, Dutton, New York
1983		Who's Who in Waterfowl Art, J. Ray Chapman, Ambassador Graphics and Wildlife, Summerville, South Carolina
1983		The Georgia-Florida Field Trial Club, 1967-1983, edited by Charles M Chapin III, Princeton, NJ
1976		Trout Fishing, Charles Waterman, Simon and Schuster, New York, New York
1973		An American Crusade for Wildlife, James B. Trefethen, Winchester Press and the Boone and Crockett Club, New York, New York

PERIODICALS
2007		July 5, 2007, The Martha's Vineyard Times, "Artist Peter Corbin - capturing love of the outdoor life lived well", by Nelson Sigelman
2007		Spring 2007, Passport, "Artist and Sportsman", by Rob Barry
1996		September/October, Wildlife Art, "The More Things Change - The New Art of Peter Corbin," by Michael McIntosh
1996		May/June, Sporting Classics, "Grand Slam on the Flats," story and art by Peter Corbin
1995		Summer, Atlantic Salmon Journal, "Peter Corbin," by Harry Bruce
1991		September/October, Sporting Classics, "Peter Corbin's Dirty Work," by Tom Davis.
1986		September/October, Wildlife Art News, "The Sportman's Legacy of Peter Corbin - A Whisper of Light," by Tom Davis
1985		August, Sports Afield, "The Paintings of Peter Corbin," by Lionell Atwill
1981		Februrary, Atlantic Salmon Journal, "A Fascination of Light," by John Merwin

EDUCATION
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut: B.A. Degree with High Honors
Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut


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