JAMES
COE
ARTIST, ILLUSTRATOR, AND NATURALIST |
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168 Alcove Road
Hannacroix, NY 12087
(518) 731-6981
(518) 731-6981 (notify first)
jecoe@earthlink.net
www.jamescoe.com
New York, New York; 5 March 1957
M.F.A. Parsons School School of Design, 1984
A.B. Harvard University, 1979
Signature Member, Society of Animal Artists; elected 2002
Associate Member, Oil Painters of America; elected 2003
2004 Purchase Award,
Focus on Nature, VIII, New York State Museum
2006 Finalist, Art Prize Challenge, No. 31, Landscapes, International
Artist Magazine
2006 Hiram Blauvelt
Art Museum Purchase Award, Society of Animal Artists, 46th Annual Exhibition
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Windham Fine Arts,
Windham, NY: James Coe: Plein Air, 2004.
Marion Art Center, Marion, MA: James Coe, Plein Air Landscapes, 2003.
Otter Hook Gallery, Delmar, NY: Harvest Light, 2002.
Massachusetts Audubon Society, Visual Arts Center, Canton, MA: Finding
a Place for Birds, 2002.
Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY: Views of the Valley, 2002.
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Selected
Group Exhibitions
Leigh Yawkey
Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI: Birds in Art, 1980, 1982, 1984,
1986, 2003, 2005-2007.
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT: 46th Annual Exhibition
of the Society of Animal Artists, 2006.
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT: Small Works, 2004-2007.
New York State Museum, Albany, NY: Focus on Nature, 1998, 2000,
2002, 2004 and 2006.
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT: Art of the Animal
Kingdom, 1998, 2002-2007.
Brazier Fine Art, Richmond, VA: Oil Painters of America, Eastern
Regional, 2006.
Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT: All Paintings Great and Small, 2005-2006.
Nevada State Museum, Carson City, NV: 45th Annual Exhibition of
the Society of Animal Artists, 2005.
Hilligoss Galleries, Chicago, IL: Oil Painters of America, National
Exhibition, 2005.
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT: Impressions of
New England, 2000, 2002-2005.
Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY: A Quiet Place, 2005.
Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY: Paint the Mountain Top, 2005-2006
Objects and Images, Bronxville, NY: Painting in the Moment, 2004
and 2006.
Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY: Flowing to the Hudson, 2005
Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz, NY. The Sky Above, 2005
Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY: A Celebration of Snow, 2004.
Barnsite Art Studio and Gallery, Kewaunee, WI: Oil Painters of
America, Eastern Regional, 2004.
Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA: Oil Painters of America,
National Exhibition, 2004.
Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ: Annual Exhibition of the
Society of Animal Artists, 2003-2004.
Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY: Barns of the Valley, 2004.
Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY: An American Sampler, 2004.
Clarke Galleries, Stowe, VT: IV Centuries of Birds in Paintings,
Sculpture, & Fine Prints, 2003.
Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz, NY. Romantic Light: The New Luminists,
2003.
Catskill Mountain Foundation Gallery, Hunter, NY: Reflections
of the Land, 2002.
Otter Hook Gallery, Delmar, NY: En Plein Air: Hudson Valley Landscapes,
2002.
Massachusetts Audubon Society, South Shore Regional Center, Marshfield,
MA: A Passion for Birds, 2000.
Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall, NY: BirdScapes: 12 Artists'
Visions of Birds and Nature, 2000.
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Collections
Bennington Center
for the Arts, Bennington, VT.
First Reserve National Bank, Greenwich, CT
Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ
Leigh Yawkey Woodson
Art Museum, Wausau, WI.
New York State
Museum, Albany, NY.
Massachusetts
Audubon Society Visual Arts Center, Canton, MA.
Selsor Gallery, Martin
and Osa Johnson Safari Museum, Chanute, KS.
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Bibliography
King, Jennifer, "The
New Hudson River School", Plein Air Magazine (Fine Art Connoisseur),
April 2005, pp 50-55.
Coe, James, "Plein Air Scout: Catskill State Park, Windham, NY",
Plein Air Magazine (Fine Art Connoisseur), February 2005, p 80.
Busby, John, Drawing Birds, 2nd ed., Christopher Helm, 2004, p 128.
Kinstler, Peggy, ed.,"Through InformArt's Looking Glass," InformArt
Magazine, Spring 2004, pp 58-59.
Brown, Joan, "James Coe: Changing Focus," Wildlife Art,
May-June 2003, pp 30-34.
Wells, Allison Childs, "Art of the Question," Birdscope,
15(2): 14-15, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, 2001.
Singer, Alan, Wildlife Art, Rockport Publishers, Inc., 1999, p 44.
Hammond, Nicholas, Modern Wildlife Painting, Yale University Press,
1998, pp 153-154.
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Books Written and
Illustrated
Eastern Birds: A Guide to Field Identification,
Golden Books, 1994; 2nd ed., St. Martin’s Press, 2001. |
Books
Illustrated
Ornithology, Frank Gill, W. H. Freeman & Co.,
1990; 2nd ed., 1995.
Birds of North America: West, John and Edith Bull, Macmillan Publishing
Company, 1989.
Easy Bird Guide: Western Region, John and Edith Bull, Globe Pequot,
2006
Other
Selected Illustration Credits
BOOKS
Adaptations of Desert Organisms: Avian Desert Predators.
William E. Cook, Springer-Verlag, 1997.
Audubon Handbooks:Eastern Birds, and Western Birds. John Farrand
Jr., McGraw Hill Book Co., 1988.
Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding, Vol. 1-3. John Farrand
Jr., ed., Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1983.
Birdfinding in Forty National Forests and Grasslands. American
Birding Association, 1994.
Field Guide to the Birds of New Guinea, Bruce Beehler, et al.,
Princeton University Press, 1986.
PERIODICALS
Sanctuary
(Massachusetts Audubon Society), Autumn 2005, p 4; Spring 2005, p 10; Nov./Dec.
2001, cover.
Birding World, cover: Vol. 17, No. 11, November 2004.
Bird Watcher's Digest, covers: Vol. 18 No. 3, Feb. 1996; Vol. 20
No. 2, Nov./Dec. 1997; Vol. 26, No. 2, Nov./Dec. 2004.
Journal of Raptor Research (Arkansas State University), covers: Vol.
35 No. 4; Dec. 2001; Vol. 36 No. 4, Dec. 2003.
Auk (American Ornithologists Union), Vol. 108, No. 3, frontispiece,
July 1991; Vol. 117 No. 1, cover, Jan. 2000.
Animal Kingdom (New York Zoological Society), Vol. 92, No 2, p. 45,
March/April 1989.
The Wilson Bulletin (Wilson Ornithological Society), Vol. 98, No.
4, frontispiece, December 1986.
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