Tony Fitzpatrick
Artist, Author
1958 –
Who is Tony Fitzpatrick?
Tony Fitzpatrick is an American artist born and based in Chicago.
He graduated from Montini Catholic High School in Lombard, Illinois in 1977. In the early 1980s, Fitzpatrick began seriously drawing with colored pencils on slate boards in a store front gallery in the town of Villa Park, Illinois. The gallery was called The Edge. He worked by day and bartended at the bar across the street at night. During that time, he developed separate friendships with Chicago radio personality and bluesman Buzz Kilman and film director Jonathan Demme. Demme and Kilman are longtime friends, and the three became close. As a result, Tony has appeared in a few of Demme's films and other films as well. During the late 1980s, he begin getting gallery shows in Chicago and New York City, establishing connections that would lead him to be a successful working artist who has sold paintings to several film directors, among others. Tony is also an accomplished poet and has published several books of his art and poetry, including The Hard Angels and The Neighborhood.
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- Born
- 1958
Chicago - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Chicago
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on July 23, 2013
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