Patricia Watwood is a visual artist known for her realist drawings, oil paintings, and portraits. A leading figure in the contemporary figurative art movement, she has exhibited at the Beijing World Art Museum, the European Museum of Modern Art, and the Butler Institute of American Art, and her work is held in public and private collections around the world. Her commissioned portraits hang in institutions such as St. Louis City Hall, Washington University, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard Art Museums. Watwood earned her MFA with honors from the New York Academy of Art, and was a founding member of the Water Street Atelier. She is a Signature Member of the Portrait Society of America, and has been named a Living Master by the Art Renewal Center. She is the current First Vice President of the Salmagundi Club of NYC. Watwood has produced video courses with Streamline Art Video and the streaming platforms, Craftsy.com and Terracotta.org. She has served as a professor of drawing at New York Academy of Art and has written for and been featured in American Artist and Fine Art Connoisseur, among other publications.