Patrick McCarthy is a twentieth- and twenty-first-century painter known for figurative, portrait, and pop-culture subjects rendered on canvas and panel. His body of work from the early to mid-2000s frequently incorporates stylized portraits of twentieth-century cultural icons, musicians, and film figures executed in acrylic and mixed media on canvas. During this era, he completed comparable large-scale works depicting figures such as Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Miles Davis.