 Jack Coughlan is primarily known as Jack Coughlin
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following, submitted August 2004, is from Peter Kostoulakos, AOA, NEAA: Fine Art Consultant, www.pkart.com
Jack
Coughlin - artist, professor, and music aficionado - was born in
Greenwich, CT on February 19, 1932 and now resides in Wellfleet, MA.
Coughlin, who is Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, is mostly known for his skill as a
printmaker, but he is equally adept in media such as pencil,
watercolor, oil, and, low relief bronze sculpture in the ancient lost
wax casting technique used by the old masters. His printmaking media is
as diverse as his subject matter: etching, engraving, aquatint,
woodcut, and lithography - as well as non graphic media - are used to
create birds, animals, landscapes, marine, and portraits of the famous
and not-so-famous.
Coughlin's academic and illustrative style
ranges from realism to surrealism and grotesque. He works in series
producing portraits of literary and musical figures such as Walt
Whitman, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, George
Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Little Walter, Big Walter Horton,
Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller), and James Cotton. His love of the
harmonica and blues music gave rise to a series of twenty-six pencil
and watercolor portraits published as "A Brush with the Blues" that,
according to Joe Burns of the "Provincetown Banner", paid honor to his
musical mentors. In addition to his private work, Coughlin receives
many commission requests and his art has been used to illustrate books
of poetry.
Coughlin studied at the Art Students League in New
York City. Later, he earned both a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1954
and a Master of Arts in 1961 at the Rhode Island School of Design. For
the next thirty years, in addition to creating art, he distinguished
himself as a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
His
memberships include the National Academy of Design in NYC; the Society
of American Graphic Artists in NYC; the Boston Printmakers in MA; and
the Silvermine Guild of Artists in New Canaan, CT.
Coughlin
has had solo exhibits throughout the United States - including the
Ainsworth Gallery in Boston, MA and the Silvermine Guild; the David
Hendriks Gallery in Dublin, Ireland; and the galleria Villa Schifanio
in Florence, Italy. Since his first exhibit in 1959, Coughlin has won
awards such as the E. K. Sloane Purchase Award, 21st American Drawing
Biennial, Norfolk Museum, 1965; first prize for printmaking, 60th
Annual Exhibit, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Wadsworth Athenaeum
in CT, 1970; H. P. Shope Purchase Award, Society of American Graphic
Artists, 51st Print Exhibit, 1971.
He also exhibited at the
American Drawing Biennials in 1962, 1964, and 1966; the Contemporary
Artists Eligible for Awards at the National Institute of Arts and
letters, NYC, in 1970; the 17th Biennial American Printmaking at the
Brooklyn Museum, NY, in 1971; the 150th Annual Exhibition at the
National Academy of Design, in 1975; the 3rd Norwegian International
Print Biennial in 1976; the 4th International Exhibition of Graphic
Art, Frechen, Germany; and the Associated American Artists, NYC, in the
1970s.
Recent exhibits and displays include the Kenny Gallery in
Galaway, Ireland; the Fine Arts Gallery 34 at Finger Lakes Community
College in Canandaigue, NY; and the R. Michelson Galleries in
Northampton, MA.
Some of the museums and institutions
represented by Jack Coughlin's work include the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in NYC; the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in NYC; the Norfolk Museum
of Arts and Sciences in VA; the National Collection of Fine Art in
Washington, DC; the Worcester Museum of Art in MA; the Georgia Museum
of Art in Athens, GA; the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman, OK;
the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, FL; the Frederick
and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, FL; the Wright Museum of
Art in Beloit, WI; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis,
MN; the Philadelphia Free Public Library in PA; the University of
Colorado; the Staedelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfort, Germany; and the
University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
References: Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art, 1999, page 745; Davenport's Art Reference 2003/2004, page 467; Joe Burns, The Provincetown Banner Online, July 22, 2004.
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