American Kestrel Print by Guy Coheleach, Signed.


Item Number: 135

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Description

This charming little falcon brings a taste of the wild into your home.  The American Kestrel is one of the few species of raptor for which the gender can be determined from the plumage.  The beautiful slate grey feathers on the wings declare a male!


Signed by the artist. Plate #XVIII. Print size is 16"x20", framed size is 47.5"x27". Ready to hang.


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.



PBS did two films on Coheleach in 2006 and he has been the subject of two other films, “Guy Coheleach and the Bald Eagle” and “Quest: An Artist and His Prey,” both of these have been shown on all three national television networks in the 1970s. He has been the focus of Articles in Reader’s Digest, Saturday Evening Post, National Wildlife and Wildlife Art News as well as numerous regional art and wildlife magazines.


Biography shared from https://www.guycoheleachart.com/


 

Donated by

Robert Vrooman
Linda Vrooman