Background
Koch, John was born on August 18, 1909 in Toledo. Son of Edward John and Marion (O’Hara) Koch.
Koch, John was born on August 18, 1909 in Toledo. Son of Edward John and Marion (O’Hara) Koch.
Public schools and high school, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Resident in Paris, 1929-1933, New York City, since 1933. Entirely self-taught as artist. Exhibt. Salon de Printemps (honorable mention) and Salon de Tuilleries, 1929, and in all leading exhibitions of America painting, from 1939.
One-man shows include Valentine Gallery, New York City, 1935, Kraushaar Gallery, New York City, 1939, 41, 43, 46, 49, 51, 58, 61, 65, 69, 72, 74, Memorial Exhibition, 1980, Nelson Rockhill Foundation, Kansas City, Missoury, 1940, Hudson Gallery, Detroit, 1941, Whyte Gallery, Washington, 1944, Art Alliance, Philadelphia, 1945, Portraits, Incorporated., New York City, Courie Galleries, Los Angeles, Provo, Utah, Suffolk Museum, Stonybrook, New York, Syracuse (New York) Museum, 1951, Speed Museum, Louisville, 1971, Akron (Ohio) Institute Arts, 1971, New York Cultural Center, 1973, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, 1977, Pennsylvania State University Museum Art, 1977.
Represented Metropolitan Museum Art, Brooklyn Museum Art, Boston Institute of Arts, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Missoury, museums of Canajoharie, New York, Bennington, Vermont, New Britain, Connecticut, Springfield, Massachusetts, Newark, Parrish Museum, South Hampton, New York, U. Georgia.
Member National Academy of Design (academician), Allied Artists American (director), National Institute Arts and Letters. Club: Century Association (New York City).
Married Dora Zaslavsky, December 23, 1935.