 George Joseph Kotch is primarily known as George Joseph Koch
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Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| Born in Newark, NJ on March 18, 1884. Koch maintained studios in NYC and Mystic, CT after the turn of the century. After visiting California in 1914, he returned in 1917 to establish a home in the Carmel Highlands, Due to anti-German sentiment in the U.S. during WWI, for about a decade he spelled his name Kotch. He was a cofounder of the Carmel Art Ass'n in 1927 and served as director for the first two years. A highly skilled painter, his oversize (40"x50") oils include marines and landscapes of the Monterey Peninsula. Koch died in Monterey, CA on Sept. 13, 1951.
Exh: Carmel AA from 1927; Calif. Statewide (Santa Cruz), 1930; Calif. State Fair, 1933; GGIE, 1939. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
AAA 1909-15; PF; AAW; Monterey Public Library; Death Record
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