John Cosby "Port in the Tropics"
This Artwork is:
NEW 
CUSTOM FRAMED In a contemporary honey brown colored wood frame
Plate Signed Lithographic Art Print
Matted in white
Framed Size : 33" x 26"
Image Size: 26" x 19"
Framed in the USA
Hanging hardware included on back of frame
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JOHN COSBY
AMERICIAN IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER
 
"While standing on location in a place I have never visited, I begin to recognize what is different about it from all the other places I have been. I try to capture that, the uniqueness," says Cosby.
 
As a painter Cosby travels extensively painting what he sees and feels.  Bold use of color and an energetic brush stroke combined with the truth of the place is what you will see and feel when viewing a painting by Cosby.
 
Born in Hollywood California in 1955, Cosby was raised in the west.  At an early age he began to draw and paint and was lucky enough to have been inspired by a grandmother who was an oil painter.  "She would give me the paint, some brushes and a scrap of canvas and set me off to paint.  This early experience took the fear out of creating a painting," said Cosby.
 
Cosby started traveling at an early in his life.  At 18 he was chosen as an advance man for the Executive Branch of the US Government, served under two Presidents and traveled the world.  He met many interesting people and saw many things but what most interested him were the great works of art he encountered.  "They haunted me and helped set the course for my career as a painter".  After leaving the White House, Cosby rebuilt an old classic sailing sloop designed by Nathaniel Herrishoff.  With a friend (who had dreams of being a writer)  and set sail up and down the eastern seaboard in the inland waterway for about 3 years.  Thus he began his art career.
 
"Doing drawings of anything that moved me, things began to sell and my course was set," said Cosby.
 
Upon his return to California, Cosby worked in commercial illustration and design with many clients such as In-N-Out Burger. While he was having much success with design and illustration his heart was in fine art painting, the sea and landscape of coastal California called.  With a strong gallery response, his success as a fine art painter quickly followed.