Guy Coheleach SAA, AFC American and African big game and birds
Guy Coheleach's paintings have received the Society of Animal Artists Award of Excellence an unprecedented eight times. This most prestigious honor is awarded by curators and professors of fine art from museums and universities across America. Coheleach has had one man exhibitions at major museums in 23 cities from New York to Los Angeles since 1991. The Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh hosted his retrospective exhibition in 1995 and the Newark Museum hosted it in 1996. Along with over a hundred one-man commericial shows in various cities, his work has also be exhibitied in the National Collection of Fine Art, The White House, The Corcoran Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum. Visiting Heads of State have received his American Eagle print, and he was the first Western artist to exhibit it Peking after World War II. In 2012 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Animal Artists.
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Guy Coheleach
American wildlife artist (born 1933)
Guy Coheleach is an Americanwildlife artist. [1] His paintings have been in 41 one-man retrospective exhibitions in major museums in 36 cities from New York to Los Angeles from 1991 to 2011. Along with over a hundred one-man commercial shows worldwide, his work has also been exhibited in the National Collection of Fine Art, the Royal Ontario Museum, the White House, Washington D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery, the Norton Gallery and the Newark Museum.
Visiting heads of state have received his American Eagle print, and he was the first Western artist to exhibit in Peking after World War II. Coheleach became a charter member of The World Wildlife Fund's "The 1001: A Nature Trust" in 1972. His endowment at the University of Tennessee provides about six full scholarships to the School of Wildlife Management each year.
Coheleach (pronounced KO-lee-ak) was born in New York City in 1933.
He grew up at Baldwin, Long Island, one of nine children. He began drawing around age ten. He was fascinated by the wildlife in the area in
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Biography of Guy Coheleach
From 1991 through 2011, Guy Coheleach has had one-man exhibitions displayed at major museums in 36 Cities across America, from Los Angeles to New York.
Along with over a hundred one-man commercial shows in various cities, Guy Coheleach’s work has been exhibited in the National Collection of Fine Art, The White House, The Corcoran Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum. Visiting heads of State have received his American Eagle print, and he was the first Western artist to exhibit in Peking after World War II. In 1995 his exhibition was hosted by The Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and in 1996 by the Newark Museum.
Guy Coheleach’s paintings have received the Society of Animal Artists’ Award of Excellence an extraordinary eight times. This most prestigious honor is awarded by the curators and professors of fine art from museums and universities across America. He received the celebrated Master Artist Medal from the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in 1983, one of only nine artists both living and dead so honored at the time.