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John Koch

John Koch (1909 - 1978) was active/lived in New York, Michigan / France.  John Koch is known for Genre-interiors, figure, portrait and still life painting.

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John Koch, born in Toledo, Ohio in 1909, was an American realist best known for his paintings of fashionable Manhattan and New England mansion dwellers.

Koch's early art training was minimal. He attended two summers at the artists' colony at Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he was influenced by the work and theory of Charles Hawthorne. After graduating from high school, he went to Paris, where he stayed for four years painting on his own, never under a teacher. As he later recalled, "the Louvre taught me my major lessons."

At a time when the world seemed to turn its back on the realist tradition, Koch persisted and presented intimate views of his personal world. His paintings are populated with models, musicians, views of his studio, and his own elegant fourteen-room apartment facing Central Park West in New York City.

His wife was a pianist and instructor and often Koch's paintings were of her students. "Music," one of Koch's most representative interior scene   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2815 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about John Koch

   Publications  Book References:  54
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for John Koch
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques Art & Antiques New York June 2003 Tapp, Barbara Yes
Art in America Metropolitan Master: John Koch July 2002 Silver, Kenneth E Yes
ARTnews Reviews December 2001 Editor, ARTNews Yes
Art & Auction The Art Show February 2000 Adams, Rebecca Knapp Yes
American Art Review The Forbes Magazine Collection June 1999 Forbes, Christopher Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions October 1996 Editors, Art in America Yes
54 Book References for John Koch
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Lopate, Phillip; E Sussman John Koch: Painting a New York Life 110 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1996 Sims, Lowery/Sabine Rewald Still Life The Object in American Art, 1915-1995
(Exhibition catalog)
175 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1992 Adams, Henry (others) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
(Exhibition catalog)
495 Yes
1992 Columbus Museum of Art A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
198 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Pisano, Ronald G Long Island Landscape Painting Vol ll, The Twentieth Century
(Exhibition catalog)
168 Yes
1989 Gerdts, Abigail Booth An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD
(Exhibition catalog)
208 Yes
1989 Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections 198 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Riehlman, Franklin; Glen C. Peck The American Spirit: Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture from 1817-1987 H V Allison Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)
54 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Cummings, Paul Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context
(Exhibition catalog)
144 No
1984 Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center
(Exhibition catalog)
95 No
1984 Sims, Lowery Stokes The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
167 Yes
1983 Gregg, Richard N The Artist's Studio In American Painting 1840-1983
(Exhibition catalog)
64 No
1982 Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960
(Exhibition catalog)
195 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 San Diego Museum of Art Catalogue of American Painting 240 Yes
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Springfield Library & Museum Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections 216 Yes
1979 Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor) The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings 227 Yes
1977 Bryant, Edward Models and Moments Paintings and Drawings by John Koch
(Exhibition catalog)
52 Yes
1977 Cloudman, Ruth H The Chosen Object European and American Still Life
(Exhibition catalog)
66 No
1977 Finck, Furman J Complete Guide to Portrait Painting 206 Yes
1976 Cummings, Paul American Drawings The 20th Century 207 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1974 Geske, Norman Things Seen 115 Yes
1974 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974
(Exhibition catalog)
136 No
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1967 North Carolina Museum of Art North Carolina Collects (loan exhibition N Carolina owned)
(Exhibition catalog)
192 No
1963 International Assoc. of Art Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ... 119 No
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
60 No
1946 Gruskin, Alan D Painting in the U S A 223 Yes
1944 Knoedler Galleries American Portraits by American Painters 1730-1944 24 No
1939 Watson, Forbes (essay) American Painting Today 179 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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