Art Dealers

John McCoy II

John W McCoy, II (1910 - 1989) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, California.  John McCoy II is known for Landscape, portrait and botanical painting.

John McCoy was born into a patriarchal family of businessmen, a tradition he determined to break to follow his passion for art. He became a friend of Andrew Wyeth at his father's Chadds Ford studio, and the two men liked and admired each other, and often painted together.

A painter who embraces abstraction, realism, modernism, and tradition, John McCoy married N. C. Wyeth's daughter, Ann Wyeth, and, until his death in 1989, they lived near the Wyeth family home at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. In realist style, he painted the surrounding landscape and the coast of Maine where the family vacationed. From 1946 to 1961, he taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

He earned a degree in Fine arts at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and later studied at the Beaux-Art-School in Fontainebleau, France, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia as well as with N.C. Wyeth. By the 1950s, McCoy had also developed an interest in the Abstract Expr   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2260 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 62 auction lots for John McCoy II (of which 48 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 1 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 3 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by John McCoy II as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists John McCoy II in 0 of its research Essays. John McCoy II has 14 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for John McCoy II available:    Susan Catherine Moore Waters,  Roy Nuse,  Maude Drein Bryant,  Frank Schoonover,  Xanthus Russell Smith,  Arthur Meltzer,  Paulette Van Roekens,  Paul Bernard King,  Don Stone,  Robert Spencer,  Jamie Wyeth,  Andrew George Winter,  Jay Connaway,  Antonio Martino,  William Langson Lathrop,  Hugh Bolton Jones,  Walter Elmer Schofield,  NC Wyeth,  Walter Stuempfig Jr,  Arthur Beecher Carles Jr,  Samuel Phillips,  William Zorach,  David W White,  James Hamilton