Background
Kosa, Emil Jean was born on November 28, 1903 in Paris, France. Son of Emil Jean and Jeanne (Mares) Kosa.
Kosa, Emil Jean was born on November 28, 1903 in Paris, France. Son of Emil Jean and Jeanne (Mares) Kosa.
Graduate Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, 1921. Student, L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1927-1928. Student, California The Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles, 1922.
Brought to the United States, 1907, and 1921, naturalized, 1927. Portrait and landscape painter, 1920-1968. Art department 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, 1932-1968.
Teacher Otis The Art Institute of Chicago, 1940, Chouinard Art Institute, 1947-1948, also at Laguna School of Art, fall, 1962.
Represented in permanent collections. National Academy Ranger Collection, Museum of Boston, Springfield (Massachusetts), Asheville (North Carolina) Art Museum, Dayton, Toledo, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Louisiana Jolla, Santa Paula.
Cranbrook The Art Institute of Chicago (Michigan). New Britain Institute, Dover (Delaware), Washington State College, California State Library, Phoenix Museum, California Watercolor Society, Chaffey Junior College Exhibited National Academy, American Water Color Society, 1936-1969.
Pennsylvania Academy, 1938-1953, Carnegie, since 1941.
Corcoran, since 1941. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1940-1948. Metropolitan, 1942; Virginia, 1940-1955.
Herron Institute, 1944, 1946.
Colorado Springs, 1941-1947. Had one-man shows: Los Angeles Museum, 1940.
San Diego, 1941. Santa Barbara, 1945. Oakland, 1939.
Vose Gallery, 1942. Macbeth Gallery, 1940, 1946.
Cowie Galleries, 1941-1969, Corona del March, 1969, Laguna Art Association, 1970.
Member American, California (president 1945) water color societies, Audubon Artists. His works are included in several collections of reproductions.
Married Mary Odisho, August 11, 1928. Married second, Elizabeth J. Twaddell, August 26, 1952.