Background
Coffey, John William was born on March 12, 1954 in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Son of John Nelson and Martha Caroline (Snow) Coffey.
(Twilight of Arcadia: American Landscape Painters in Rome,...)
Twilight of Arcadia: American Landscape Painters in Rome, 1830-1880 by John W. Coffey. 1987 paperback published by Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Illustrated with black-and-white and color reproductions.
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Coffey, John William was born on March 12, 1954 in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Son of John Nelson and Martha Caroline (Snow) Coffey.
Bachelor, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1976. Master of Arts, Williams College, 1978.
Assistant to director Williams College Museum Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1978—1979, acting director, 1979—1980, instructor history art, 1979—1980. Curator collections Bowdoin College Museum Art, Brunswic, Maine, 1980—1988. Curator American & modern art North Carolina Museum Art, Raleigh, since 1988, chief curator, 1993—2005, deputy director collections & programs, 2001—2005.
Deputy director art, since 2005. Trustee Williamstown Regional Art Conservation Laboratory, 1979—1980, Maine Festival Arts, 1981—1983, president, 1983—1984. Member visual arts advisory panel Maine State Committee Arts & Humanities, 1982—1985.
Member advisory committee Maine Coast Artists Gallery, 1986—1992. Member visual arts panel North Carolina Arts Council, 1990—1991. Exhibitions review panel National Endowment Arts, 1992.
Director North Carolina-Israel Cultural Exchange, 1994—1997. Member international committee North Carolina State Board Science & Technology, 1996—1998. Member steering committee North Carolina Global Partnership, 1997—1998.
Board directors North Carolina Global Center, 1998—2000. Adjunct associate professor art history Department Art University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 2003.
(Twilight of Arcadia: American Landscape Painters in Rome,...)
(Book by Coffey, John W.)
Author: American Posters of World War One, 1978, Four Artists, 1982, Yvonne Jacquette: Tokyo Nightviews, 1986, Twilight of Arcadia: American Landscape Painters in Rome 1830-1880, 1987, Lucy Sallick: In the Vicinity of Self, 1987, Introduction to Christine Woelfle: Sculptor, 1987, Referees: Dotty Attie, Christopher Hewat, John O'Reilly, 1990, Making Faces: Self-Portraits by Alex Katz, 1990, Finding the Forgotten: Landscape Paintings by John Beerman, 1991, Moshe Kupferman: Between Oblivion and Remembrance, 1991, Sign and Gesture: Contemporary Abstract Art from The Haskell Collection, 1999. Co-author: The Landscapes of Louis Remy Mignot: A Southern Painter Abroad, 1996, North Carolina Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections, 1998, review edition, 2010. Contributor articles to professional journals, chapters to books.
Member visual arts advisory panel Maine State Committee on Arts and Humanities, 1982-1985. Member advanced.com; member visual arts panel North Carolina Arts Coun.
Married Ann Patricia Roth.