Gallery Selections - James Cox Gallery

Represented Artists
	The gallery showcases a wide variety of artwork. We represent living artists, four estates of deceased artists and also maintain a large inventory of paintings, sculpture and fine prints with a special focus on the talent (past and present) of the historic Woodstock art colony. We represent the estates of four important deceased American painters and sculptors. Shown here are representative examples from the gallery's estate collections. We maintain an inventory of over one thousand original works by Margery Ryerson, Tomas Penning, James Chapin and Joseph Garlock. The gallery regularly presents a wide array of living artists reflecting relationships developed over more than three decades of quality representation. This section provides a glimpse at the artwork of many of these outstanding talents. Collectors frequently utilize our gallery to commission site-specific artwork for architectural installation and landscape sites. We also broker portraits intime, posthumous and corporate. We have an inventory of works by a variety of other artists both living and deceased. You may see selections from this inventory in the page titled "New Acquisitions, Featured Painting, Previous Sales & Inventory Selections".

	ESTATE ARTISTS
	JAMES CHAPIN (1887 – 1975) Born in New Jersey in 1887 James Chapin studied art at Cooper Union and the Art Students League in New York. In his early twenties he became an award winning pupil at the Royal Academy in Antwerp. His work is represented in an impressive roster of museums and galleries including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Art Institute, the Norton Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Harn Collection, the Fogg Museum and the San Diego Art Institute. Chapin’s work is also included in many corporate collections, Johnson & Johnson and Time Inc. among them. Private collectors include many legendary Americans such as writer Robert Frost, composer George Gershwin and financier John D. Rockefeller. Included among Chapins numerous awards is the Logan Prize from the Chicago Art Institute. The artist's sensitivity for mankind is evident in his famous series of paintings depicting the Marvins, a farm family who lived near the artist in rural New Jersey during the 1920's and 30's. His insightful and heroic depiction of "Ruby Green Singing" (a young black singer) is the single most popular painting held in the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida. His late work created during the 1960's and 70's exhibits the depth of the artist's concern about war and society's injustices.
	JOSEPH GARLOCK (1884 - 1980) Self Taught Artist Born in Russia in 1884 Joseph Garlock immigrated to the United States in 1905, settling in the lower east side of New York and later moving his family to Bloomfield, NJ. Garlock worked as a cobbler, opened a fruit and vegetable stand and operated a single vehicle bus line that ran along Bloomfield Avenue into the center of Newark. Garlock received no formal training in art and did not begin painting and sculpting until his retirement in 1949 at the age of 63. Referring to his art as his "hobby" Garlock spent 15 years creating hundreds of paintings, wood carvings and assemblages using whatever materials were available, including lumber, box tops, awning fabric, tree branches and tin cans. Oddly Garlock signed and dated each piece he created. His first painting was done on a tin pie plate and depicted the Woodstock, NY weekend cabin of his daughter Rose. In 2000, five years after Rose's death, the Garlock family discovered the hundreds of pieces of their grandfather's artwork she stored since he stopped creating art in 1965 due to old age and palsy. Garlock's work is now represented by the James Cox Gallery. His first one person exhibit opened on May 2001 at the Kleinert / James Art Center in Woodstock ( see photo ). That show garnered regional, national and even international media attention. Garlock is now also represented by the finest folk and outsider art galleries across the country. The Museum of American Folk Art has the artist's work in its permanent collection and Lee Kogan the Director of the museum's Folk Art Institute has begun research and preparation for a major book on Garlock's life and work.
	TOMAS PENNING (1905-1982) Born in Glidden, Wisconsin in 1905, sculptor Tomas Penning began his education at Chicago’s DePaul University and at the National Academy of Art where he was a pupil of Edouard Chassaing. Having won the Alexander Revelle Prize for Sculpture, Penning moved to New York where he attended the Beaux Arts School. In the summer of 1933, Penning moved further upstate to Woodstock, NY, where he began studying with the renowned Russian émigré Alexander Archipenko who later named him manager of the Archipenko Art School. The sculptor was not a pedantically religious man but found artistic and spiritual inspiration in early Christian stone sculpture and architecture. He was also inspired by the beauty and simplicity of Mayan art he explored in the Yucatan. The Penning home and studio was a locus for gatherings. These included all manner of friends from local stone quarrymen (whom he greatly admired) to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt who offered critical support for the arts during the Great Depression and in later years philosopher Joseph Campbell. Penning was a great proponent of native bluestone as a carving medium. During the depression he was engaged by the Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) to design an arts and crafts center in Woodstock. The resulting group of bluestone buildings (now the home of the Woodstock School of Art) was dedicated by Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt in 1939. Penning’s work has been exhibited at museums throughout the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Metropolitan Museum, New York Penning was commissioned by the Liturgical Art Society to create artwork for installation in catholic parishes throughout the country. Other important commissions include St. Mary of the Snow, Saugerties, NY; Our Lady of the Hudson, Esopus, NY; Thomas & Mina Edison Memorial, Chatauqua, NY; and St. Patrick and the Wolfhounds, Verplank, NY.
	MARGERY RYERSON (1886-1989) Born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1886 Margery Ryerson received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Education from Vassar College in 1909. From there she continued her studies as a pupil of Charles Hawthorne at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown MA and with Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York. Noted for her portraits of children, Ryerson also excelled as an oil painter. For a twenty year period (c.1920-40) Miss Ryerson taught art in New York settlement houses in exchange for the privilege of painting and drawing the children in their care. It was during this period the artist created what many scholars regard as her greatest achievement, a series of paintings and fine prints depicting children of the underclass and immigrants with such respect and sensitivity they found universal appeal and demand. UNIDEF has used her images on greeting cards and stamps. Associated American Artists NYC published a series of her etchings and lithographs (19__-__) and many regard these images of children at play, in performance in repose as some of the most beautiful childhood images ever created. She was represented by Chapellier, Macbeth and Grand Central Art Galleries in New York, was inducted as an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design A master printmaker, Ryerson was admitted to the Brooklyn Society of Etchers in 1918. Her etchings and prints were included in exhibitions worldwide, including the Paris Salon in 1921 at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. In 1923 her book on the teachings of Henri, The Art Spirit, was published by Lippincott Company of Philadelphia and has been in continuous publication since. In 1944 she was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Special Sterling Award from the National Academy of Design. In 1984 she was included in an exhibit at the Newark Museum entitled The Eight and Their Influence and in 1990 her work was presented along with Henri’s in a show entitled Henri and Ryerson, the Art Spirit at the Grand Central Art Galleries. In 2005 major oils by Margery Ryerson were featured in Thoroughly Modern: The "New Women" Art Students of Robert Henri at the Museum of Bringham Young University. In 2008 a selection of the artist's work will be shown at the Provincetown Aritsts Association and Museum (PAAM) to coincide with a major show stressing Charles Hawthorne (1872-1930 ) and his teaching methods. The influential book "Charles Hawthorne on Painting" is still in print and largely based on class notes Miss Ryerson took while in his class from 19__ to 19__.

	LIVING ARTISTS
	PAOLA BARI Paola Bari is a porcelain painter, exhibiting in the United States and Europe. Born and raised in Italy, she became interested in porcelain painting as a teenager and has been actively painting ever since. She began porcelain painting in Milano and attended numerous seminars to learn different styles and techniques of porcelain painting. She paints porcelain and Limoges pieces with overglaze colors and uses European close medium, lusters and precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum. Once painted, each piece requires firing to around 1400-1450 degrees Fahrenheit to make the colors permanent on the china surface. Many pieces need to be fired multiple times, depending on the motif and the variety of material used. In the past few years, reviews of her work appeared in the Taconic Press in Artectera, in The Times Herald, in The Catskill Mountain Region Guide, in the Poughkeepsie Journal and since 2002, she has been listed in the Art in America Annual Guide.
	LESLIE BENDER A native of New Brunswick, New Jersey, Leslie Bender studied at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League. Galleries and museums throughout New York State have exhibited Bender's work. Among them are the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum, New York; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell; New York State Museum; Tom Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock; NY and Warren Street Gallery, Hudson. In addition to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Leslie Bender includes the Woodstock Historical Society and the Sunrise Trust among her collectors. Bender is also a masterful muralist. Between 1978 and the present she has executed murals throughout New York and New Jersey including Angels and Bread Making, commissioned by Bread Alone Bakery, Boiceville, NY; Great Women Chefs of America, The Culinary Institute; and Hebrew Educational Society Mural, a work that measures five by eighty feet. Antiques and the Arts Weekly, New York Newsday, The New York Times and numerous other publications have all featured the work of Leslie Bender.
	JON CAMPBELL Jon Campbell was born in 1982 in Kingston, New York. His mother, Nancy Campbell, being a painter, exposed Jon to painting at the age of two, when he would watch her paint watercolors in her attic studio. Jon has been making images of his own since that age. He attended the Woodstock School of Art on a full scholarship (1997-2005), the School of Visual Arts (2001-2002), and the School of Art+Design at Purchase College (2004-2006), from where he received his B.F.A., as a Magna Cum Laude graduate. His paintings have been exhibited from Albany to New York City, and are in numerous private collections. In May 2007, Jon re-located to Berlin, Germany, to expand his artistic, cultural, and visual palette and to explore his artistic self.
	MARY ANNA GOETZ Mary Anna Goetz was born in 1946 in Oklahoma City where she began her art studies as a pupil of her well-known artist parents, Richard and Edith Goetz. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Oklahoma City University, Goetz furthered her studies at the Malden Bridge School of Art in upstate New York; Cape School of Art in Provincetown, MA; and The New York Academy of Art in New York City. A noted landscape painter, Goetz's work is showcased at the Hudson River Club in New York which purchased over 35 of her canvases of the Hudson Valley region. She is also included in numerous other corporate and private collections including Union Pacific, the Union League Club, White and Case and the Professional Golf Association. One-person exhibitions of Mary Anna Goetz's work have been held at galleries throughout the country including Grand Central Art Galleries, New York and Newman Galleries, Philadelphia. A technique book written by Goetz entitled Painting Landscapes in Oils was published in 1990 by North Light Books. Goetz also maintains an active teaching schedule and is faculty member of the Woodstock School of Art and the Cape Cod School of Art. She is also a member of the National Association of Women Artists, and the National Arts Club. Mary Anna Goetz is included in Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in the East.
	BILL MILLER Discarded linoleum and vinyl flooring is reclaimed as a medium for the artwork of Bill Miller. Creating an effect that lies somewhere between collage and stained glass, Miller's innovative use of the linoleum's pattern and color is his signature style. Miller's work has been recognized for rendering narrative moods and a sense of common memory. His unexpected use of patterns taps into the medium's nostalgic familiarity striving to impart a sense of history and story within each piece. Miller has exhibited his work in exhibitions across the United States over the past 10 years. Initially showing paintings in oil and acrylic, Miller began working with recycled materials as a founding member of Pittsburgh's Industrial Arts Co-op, constructing large-scale sculptures made of scrap materials in abandoned industrial sites.
	BRUCE NORTH After studying at the University of Miami, Bruce North moved to New York where he received a graduate certificate from the School of Visual Arts. He then spent two years at the Brooklyn Museum School, followed by classes at several prestigious art schools including the Art Students League. North also earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from SUNY Empire State. A popular teacher, Bruce North has been an instructor at many of the country's finest art schools. He also served as Acting Director of the Brooklyn Museum Art School. North's one-person exhibitions include shows at FAR Gallery and Grand Central in New York, and Kenmore Gallery, Philadelphia. He has also been invited to exhibit in group shows at galleries and museums throughout the country including the Brooklyn Museum; Doll and Richards, Cambridge, MA; Grand Central Art Galleries, NY; and he National Arts Club and National Academy of Design, New York. A noted landscape, sporting and wildlife painter, North's work has been featured in American Artist Magazine, Gray's Sporting Journal, Kaatskill Life and The Art of Fly Fishing.

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