DAVID MCCOSH Tapa blanda - 1985

David McCosh by Leonard Buell KimbrellPublisher: Museum of Art, University of Oregon (1985)ISBN-10: 0961540508ISBN-13: 9780961540500Paperback: 56 pages11 x 9 inchesDavid McCosh, an important Oregon painter and influential teacher, was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1903. He spent a year studying liberal arts at Coe College in 1922 and a year later began six years of study at the Art Institute of Chicago, from which he graduated in 1926. In May 1927, while a graduate student at the Art Institute, he won the prestigious John Quincy Adams Fellowship, which enabled him to travel and paint in Europe during the winter of 1927 and most of 1928.In 1930, while he was painting in Oyster Bay, Long Island, on a Tiffany Foundation fellowship, McCosh met Anne Kutka, a gifted young painter who was also a Tiffany fellow. The two were married in New Mexico in July 1934. McCosh began teaching in 1932 at the Art Institute and at the Stone City Art colony in Iowa, a summer program organized by his friend Grant Wood. In… Leer más

Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1985. 56 pages, illustrations, some colour; 23 x 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Sticker shadow/front cover.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

Eugene: University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1985. Paperback. VERY GOOD PLUS. Sunning to covers. Light shelfwear. A bit of scuffing to spine. Over 45 color and black and white illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 56 pp with chronology. "David McCosh was a painter's painter who was not concerned with trends, fads or technical genius, but rather with the continuous development and creative exploration of his personal art form, (foreword). This volume contains close to 50 paintings beginning with the 1927 painting of The Prodigal Son, to 1972 and his last painting, Blackberries.