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

 

Solo Exhibitions

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.

 

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.

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.


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.


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.