David John McCosh (1903 Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 1981 Eugene, Oregon) was a Northwest American artist and art instructor.[1][2][3] The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art has over 170 of his works in their permanent collection.
McCosh graduated from the School of Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in 1926 and began his teaching career there in 1931. In 1934 McCosh traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico to marry painter Anne Kutka in the company of his new in-laws, artists and art instructors Suzanne Kutka Boss and Homer Boss. Later that same year the couple relocated to Oregon. There he taught courses in lithography, drawing, oil painting and watercolors at the University of Oregon from 1934 through to his retirement in 1970.
| 1922 | Undergraduate at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
| 1927 | Spends the summer in Wyoming on a painting trip. |
| 1928 | Spent 8 months in Europe, including in Paris, France. |
| 1930 | Meets Anne Kutka in Oyster Bay, Long Island, with Bolton Brown. |
| 1931 | Rooms with Herber Ferber Silvers in New York City in the winter and spends the summer working in Grant Arnold’s lithography studio in Woodstock, New York. |
| 1932 | Art Institute of Chicago and Stone Colony. |
| 1933 | Stone Colony and Murals. |
| 1934 | Marries Anne (NM), moves to Eugene, OR; Feragil Gallery, Maynard Walker Gallery. |
| 1936 | Sagatuck, Michigan, with Francis Chapin, Art Institute of Chicago Summer School. |
| 1937 | Art Institute of Chicago summer school. |
| 1938 | Lewis and Clarke in Kelso, WA. |
| 1940 | National Parks murals, Washington, D.C. |
| 1942 | Spirit of Beresford mural, SD. |
| 1947 | Bozeman Montana summer teaching. |
| 1949 | Sabbatical: painting at Cohasset Beach, Washington, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and New Mexico. |
| 1954 | Full Professor |
| 1956 | Painting workshop in Klamath Falls, Oregon. |
| 1957 | Guest artist at San Jose State College, California, during the summer. |
| 1958 | Sabbatical: England, France, Italy, Morocco, and Spain. |
| 1962 | Illustrates Ernest G. Moll’s poem “The Lightless Ferry” for publication in The Rainbow Serpent and Other Poems. |
| 1965 | Sabbatical: New Mexico and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico City, and the Yucatan. |
| 1970 | Retires. |
| 1977 | Interview with David and Anne. |
| 1981 | Dies in Eugene, Oregon. |
Following his death in 1981, his widow Anne Kutka McCosh donated over a thousand of his works and other art-related materials to the University of Oregon and the University's Art Museum. Included were personal letters, sketch books, and audio interviews with other artists. There was also a 1977 interview of the couple themselves. Some of this material was turned into an essay, The Making of David McCosh.[4] Other essays about McCosh include The Night Drawings of David McCosh,[5] Learning to Paint is Learning to See[6] and David McCosh / Entanglements.[7]
References
edit- ^ "David McCosh | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art". jsma.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "David McCosh". portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ Allen, Ginny (1999). Oregon Painters: The First Hundred Years (1859–1959). Portland, OR. ISBN 978-0875952710.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ McCosh, David (2011). The making of David McCosh: Early paintings, drawings, and prints, July 23 – September 4, 2011. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon. ISBN 978-0-87114-096-8. OCLC 727610656.
- ^ "The Night Drawings of David McCosh Karin Clarke Gallery, November 2009". issuu. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ Saydack, Roger (2016). David McCosh: Learning to paint is learning to see: The McCosh exhibitions, 2005–2014. Jill Hartz, Danielle Knapp, David McCosh, Anne Kutka McCosh, Karin Clarke Gallery, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Eugene. ISBN 978-0-9903533-7-9. OCLC 1033412126.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "David McCosh | Learning to Paint is Learning to See Addendum 2021 by jsmauo – Issuu". issuu.com. 19 August 2021. Retrieved 2023-02-20.