Background
Coughlin, Jack was born on February 19, 1932 in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. Son of John Jay and Gabrielle S. (Jones) Coughlin.
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Jack Coughlin
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Jack Coughlin, American printmaker, sculptor, art educator. Recipient numerous awards, prizes for work, National Institute Arts and Letters, 1969, prize for drawing 158th National Exhibition, National Academy of Design, 1983, 33d North Dakota Print and Drawing Annual, 1991, 34th National Pring Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Center, National Academy of Design prize, 2005, 2007.
Education
Student, Art Students League, New York City, 1950-1952; Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School Design, 1954; Master of Science, Rhode Island School Design, 1961.
Career
Although Coughlin’s education coincided with the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, he has always been drawn to figurative traditions in European and American art Coughlin"s portraits are regularly commissioned for the New Republic magazine and have been published in several volumes of poetry in Ireland and the United States. However, in prints and drawings from the 1960s to the present, he has also pursued a vein of imagery that is much less naturalistic and that explores a range of sources, from the anatomical drawings of George Stubbs to the grotesque hybrids of European printmakers like Francisco Goya and Martin Schongauer.
In many metamorphic, dream like images, absurd and mysterious juxtapositions of the human and animal join in an irrational evolutionary journey.
Here his automatic drawing practice is akin to that of the Surrealists and is wed to his interests in the existential wordplay of Samuel Beckett. Celebrated for his combinations of innovative and traditional techniques during the resurgence of intaglio, lithograph, and woodcut printmaking in the 1960s and 70s, Coughlin taught printmaking at University of Massachusetts Amherst from the foundation of its art department until his retirement over 35 years later.
Achievements
Membership
Served with United States Army, 1954-1956. Member National Academy of Design (academician), Society American Graphic Artists.
Connections
Married Joan M. Hopkins, July 5, 1958. Children: Maura, Molly.
Awards
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Recipient numerous awards, prizes for work, National Institute Arts and Letters, 1969, prize for drawing 158th National Exhibition, National Academy of Design, 1983, 33d North Dakota Print and Drawing Annual, 1991, 34th National Pring Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Center, National Academy of Design prize, 2005, 2007.Recipient numerous awards, prizes for work, National Institute Arts and Letters, 1969, prize for drawing 158th National Exhibition, National Academy of Design, 1983, 33d North Dakota Print and Drawing Annual, 1991, 34th National Pring Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Center, National Academy of Design prize, 2005, 2007.