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Guy Coheleach
Framed Oil Painting of Three Pelicans, American Realist, Circa 1999

1999

$5,000
£3,746.20
€4,366.68
CA$7,037.59
A$7,163.54
CHF 4,077.62
MX$86,469.22
NOK 47,547.32
SEK 48,120.61
DKK 32,643.40

About the Item

Three Bills presents three Brown Pelicans grouped at the water’s edge in their characteristic postures of resting watchfulness. Together, the three create an interlocking pyramid of form that fills the tall vertical canvas from crown to toe. Their reflections shimmer in the shallow margin at the bottom of the canvas, dissolving into loose, luminous passages of dark teal and ochre. Guy Coheleach renders each bird with the meticulous attention to anatomical structure and plumage detail that has earned him comparison to John James Audubon — yet the whole never tips into illustration. Every feather group is individuated: the overlapping scallops of the wing coverts, the ruffled breast feathers, the wiry crest plumes, the textured pouch skin of the bill. Each bird’s eye is painted with extraordinary specificity — the pink orbital ring, the small dark iris, the glint of reflected light — giving each animal a distinct personality and presence. The background is handled with looser, more painterly freedom: the tropical water suggested through diagonal strokes of deep teal and aquamarine, the sandy bank a warm field of golden ochre with just enough texture to read as coarse sand. Guy Coheleach (born 1933, New York) is regarded as one of the great American wildlife artists of the twentieth century. Born on Long Island, he served in the Korean War with the 65th Combat Engineers before graduating from the Cooper Union School of Art in 1956, subsequently receiving an honorary doctorate from the College of William and Mary. Working as a professional illustrator to fund his early career, Coheleach devoted himself increasingly to wildlife painting, travelling to Africa, Asia, Alaska, South America, and across the American national parks system to study his subjects at first hand. His commitment to field experience was absolute: in 1972, he was run down by an elephant in Zambia — a moment captured on film that was broadcast on all three major American television networks. He has since returned to Africa as many as five times in a single year. PBS devoted two films to his work in 2006, and he was the subject of two earlier films: Guy Coheleach and the Bald Eagle and Quest: An Artist and His Prey. Coheleach’s exhibition record is extraordinary. He held 41 one-man retrospective exhibitions in major museums across 36 American cities from 1991 to 2011, with solo shows hosted by the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (1995) and the Newark Museum (1996), among others. His work has been exhibited at the National Collection of Fine Arts (Smithsonian Institution), the White House, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Norton Gallery. Visiting heads of state have received his American Eagle print as official gifts, and he was the first Western artist to exhibit in Beijing after World War II. He is a charter member of the World Wildlife Fund’s “The 1001: A Nature Trust” and maintains an endowment at the University of Tennessee providing approximately six full scholarships annually to the School of Wildlife Management. His paintings have received the Society of Animal Artists’ Award of Excellence an extraordinary eight times — more than any other artist — and in 1983 he was awarded the prestigious Master Artist Medal from the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, at the time given to only nine artists living or dead. In 2012, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Animal Artists. The verso bears a label from the Birds in Art exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, where it was catalogued as “3 Bills, 1999, Oil on canvas” — confirming this painting was exhibited at what is widely considered the most prestigious annual wildlife bird art exhibition in the world. Presented in an ebonized and gilt wood frame with foliate molding. Framed: 25 3/4" H x 17 7/8" W Work Details Artist: Guy Coheleach (American, b. 1933) Title: Three Bills Medium: Oil on canvas Date: 1999 Signed: Lower right, “Guy Coheleach ©” Exhibition History: Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin (label on verso)
  • Creator:
    Guy Coheleach (1933)
  • Creation Year:
    1999
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Width: 13.5 in (34.29 cm)
  • Medium:
    Canvas,Oil
  • Movement & Style:
    American Realist
  • Period:
    1990-1999
  • Condition:
    Good Condition. Some surface dust, but in good condition without damage or paint loss.
  • Gallery Location:
    Marco Island, FL
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: INV7001stDibs: LU2866216862852

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