Beautiful John McCoy watercolor paper. 21 x 17 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1910 - 1989. John McCoy was born into a patriarchal family of businessmen, a tradition he determined to break to follow his passion for art. He became a friend of Andrew Wyeth at his father's Chadds Ford studio, and the two men liked and admired each other, and often painted together.A painter who embraces abstraction, realism, modernism, and tradition, John McCoy married N. C. Wyeth's daughter, Ann Wyeth, and, until his death in 1989, they lived near the Wyeth family home at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. In realist style, he painted the surrounding landscape and the coast of Maine where the family vacationed. From 1946 to 1961, he taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.He earned a degree in Fine arts at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and later studied at the Beaux-Art-School in Fontainebleau, France, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia as well as with N.C. Wyeth. By the 1950s, McCoy had also developed an interest in the Abstract Expressionists, particularly Jackson Pollock, and began experimenting with mixed media and pouring, dripping, and floating paint on canvas.The book, John McCoy, an American Painter, by Anna McCoy with commentary by Andrew Wyeth, tells of McCoy's struggle for an independent creative voice and his determination to reduce painting to its essence.

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