Background
John Coburn was born in Ingham, Queensland, Australia on 23 September 1925. John moved from town to town with his mother and two younger sisters as his bank manager father went from branch to branch. His father died when the boy was 10.
John Coburn was born in Ingham, Queensland, Australia on 23 September 1925. John moved from town to town with his mother and two younger sisters as his bank manager father went from branch to branch. His father died when the boy was 10.
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. University of Illinois (Bachelor of Arts, 1948). University of Illinois (Bachelor of Laws, 1950).
Phi Delta Phi.
While enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy during World World War II he travelled around the Pacific and Indian oceans as a radio operator, drawing images from these places whilst aboard HMAS Nepal, including Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea and others Coburn studied art at East Sydney Technical College in 1947. He finished his four-year training dissatisfied:
In 1956 he joined the American Broadcasting Company when television came in, working on set design and art work.
Coburn taught art at East Sydney Technical College from 1959–1966 and he later became Head of the National Art School at the College for two years.
Foreign several years, two of his tapestries were hung in the Sydney Opera House, as curtains in the Drama Theatre and the (recently renamed) Joan Sutherland Theatre. Seven hang in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington District of Columbia
Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations. Corporate Law, Estate Planning and Administration.