Jo Kotula -Portrait Session With a Sitting Model -Oil Painting

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Jo Kotula -Portrait Session with a sitting Model -Oil Painting

oil painting on canvas- signed
circa 1960/70s

frame size 17 … more Jo Kotula -Portrait Session with a sitting Model -Oil Painting

oil painting on canvas- signed
circa 1960/70s

frame size 17 x 21"
canvas size 16 x 20"

Artist Biography
(1910 - 1998)
Jo Kotula was active/lived in United States. He is known for figure-female, aviation.Jo Kotula was the Polish-born son of a coal miner immigrant. Arriving in the United States as age six months in 1910, he came of age with aviation and was self-taught as an artist. Proficient in many subjects and styles, his love of aviation led to his very special style of aviation art. From the early 1930s, his talent was much in demand, appearing in national magazines such as Saturday Evening Post, Liberty, Colliers, Newsweek, Air Trails and Popular Science. His cover paintings for Model Airplane News began in 1932 and continued for 38 years, creating more than 400 images. His illustrations for Air Force training manuals during and after World War II are true classics of black and white watercolor rendering of cloudscapes and aircraft.Jo was proficient in line, watercolor, gouache, casein, acrylic and oils. He agreed with an early French art reviewer who stated that "a picture is first of all a painting...not a picture of something." Jo was a master of handling sunlight on bare aluminum, strong shapes, nice composition and simplicity. He acquired a private pilot's license in 1936 and often delivered paintings by air to clients around the country. He was a founding member of the American Society of Aviation Artists. A resident of New Jersey, Jo was inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey in 1999.

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