PHILIP KOCH
EDUCATION
1972 MFA in Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1970 BA Oberlin College, OH
1968-69 Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
1967 School of Art, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2011-2012 Unbroken Thread: Nature Paintings and the American Imagination. The Art of Philip Koch, Saginaw Art Museum, MI
2011 Unbroken Thread, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Neport News, VA
2010 Unbroken Thread, Clymer Museum of Art, Ellensburg, WA
2010 Unbroken Thread, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
2009 Unbroken Thread, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2003 New England Dreams, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2002 Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, (two artist
exhibition)
2001 Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
1999 Milton Art Museum, Milton, MA
1999 Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI
1998 Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
1996 Saginaw Art Museum, MI
1995 Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
1995 Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
1995 Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
1995 Butler Institute of American Art, Salem, OH
1994 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA
1990 Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Inside Edward Hopper’s Truro Studio: Paintings by Philip Koch, Edward Hopper House Art
Center, Nyack, NY
2011 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2011 Carbon County Cultural Project, Jim Thorpe, PA
2011 Sabbatical Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2010 JLP Gallery, Baltimore, MD (two artist exhibition)
2010 Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2009 George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Unbroken Thread, Hungerford Memorial Gallery, College of Southern Maryland,
La Plata, MD
2009 Unbroken Thread, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2008 Unbroken Thread, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
2007 Light, Forest, Sea, J.L. Pierce Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2006 Sites and Insights (two artist exhibition), Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2005 Overviews, Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2005 Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC, on-line exhibition
2004 Vision of Nature: The Landscapes of Philip Koch, University of Maryland University
College, Adelphi, MD
2004 Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC
2003-2004 Stevenson University, Baltimore, MD
2003 Bogigian Gallery, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA
2003 Leeds Gallery, Earlham College, Richmond, IN
2003 University of Wisconsin Parkside, Kenosha, WI (two artist exhibition)
2003 ERL Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
1999 Lyonswier Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
1998 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1997 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1995 Peter Bartlow Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (also 1982, 1981)
1993 Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL (also 1991)
1992 Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX (also 1988, 1986, 1984)
1991 Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC (also 1998)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Who We Are: Past and Present, Peninsula Fine Arts Center’s 50th
2012 Anniversary Exhibition, Newport News, VA
2012 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2012 Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2012 Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2012 Meredith Long & Co, Houston, TX
2011 Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2011 Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VTY
2011 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2011 Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2010 Natural and Urban Landscapes, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2010 The Great American Landscape Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2010 Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2010 Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2010 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2010 Hawthorne Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
2009 Transformations, Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2009 Green, Hawthorne Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
2009 May Landscape Exhibition, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2009 Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2009 Art About Color, Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2009 Hawthorne Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
2008 Summer Landscape Exhibition, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2008 A Sense of Place: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection of the Saginaw Art
Museum, Saginaw Art Museum, MI
2008 J. L. Pierce Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2008 Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2008 Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2008 Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2008 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2008 Art Auction, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA 2007 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2007 Good Night Sun, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Payne Gallery, Moravian College,
Bethlehem, PA
2007 Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2007 Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2007 Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2007 Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2006-2008 Art in Embassies Program, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 On Tour: A Landscapist Reconnects with his Forerunners, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine
feature article, reproductions, May/June 2012
2012 The Saginaw News, Saginaw, MI, reproduction, 2/12/12
2011 Gallery Guide: Chicago/Midwest, Spotlight: Unbroken Thread: The Art of Philip Koch,
December ‘11 issue
2011 Artist’s Upbringing Colors His Work, The Saginaw News, Saginaw, MI, 12/8/11
2011 New England Landscapes Build on Tradition, Daily Press, Newport News, VA, 9/11/11
2011 Something Deep and True: Philip Koch at Peninsula Fine Arts Center, ˆVeer magazine,
August 2011 issue
2011 Contemporary Landscapes on exhibit at CCCP, Times News, Lehighton, PA, June 23,
2011 See What the World Has to Offer Under the Great Dome by Philip Koch, Herald Mail,
June 9, Hagerstown, MD
2011 An Artist Looks at Rockwell Kent, Spring 2011 Newsletter, published by Baltimore Museum
of Art, Prints, Drawings and Photographs Society
2010 Little Treasures: “Petite” and Philip Koch Paintings at Edgewater Gallery, Seven Days,
December 22.
2010 Back East and Back to an Old Friend: A Blog Commentary by Philip Koch, The Kent
Collector journal, Fall/Winter 2010
2010 Picking Up the Threads, South Bend Tribune, 4/26/10
2010 Celebrate the Art of the Past at Elkhart Museum’s 31st Anniversary, The Elkhart Truth,
June 6.
2009 Fine Art Connoisseur, July- August ’09 issue
2009 Cape Cod Museum Features Philip Koch Exhibition, Antiques and The Arts Weekly,
June 26, 2009
2009 Art New England, June/July ’09 issue, reproduction
2009 In Hopper’s Footsteps, Art of the Cape and Islands, summer supplement to Cape Cod Life
magazine, reproductions
2009 Fine Art Connoisseur, June ’09 issue
2009 Art New England, April-May ’09 issue
2009 Maryland Public Radio (WYPR) 9 minute interview with Cultural Editor Tom Hall on
Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast
2009 Philip Koch: Spirit of Place, American Art Collector magazine, January ’09 issue,
reproductions
2009 Bold Colors: George Billis Gallery Spotlights Contemporary
2009 Landscape Painting, Southwest Art magazine, January ’09 issue
2008 Unbroken Thread: Nature Paintings and the American Imagination. The Art of Philip Koch,
University of Maryland University College Adelphi, MD, 92 page scholarly catalogue with
essay by Eva J. Allen
2008 Philip Koch Experiencing Nature, Inside and Out, by Mathias Anderson, Fine Art
Connoisseur magazine,Mar.- April ’08
2007 Maryland Public Television video feature interview filmed in artist’s studio
2007 Moravian College Magazine, Summer ’07 issue
2005 The Townsman, Andover, MA, 9/1/05
2004 New York Times, 8/27/04
2004 The Boston Globe, 9/21/04
2004 A Vision of Nature: The Landscapes of Philip Koch, University of Maryland University
College, 120 page, scholarly catalogue with essay by Eva J. Allen, Ph.D.
2004 “Imagining Nature”, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, SC 1/24/04
2003 The Boston Globe, 8/28/03
2003 Cape Cod Magazine, 8/03
2003 Cape Cod Times, 8/15-21/03
2003 “North Dakota Ties”, Grand Forks Herald, 10/19/03
2003 “Dreams Turned into Paint”, Tribune Star, Terre Haute, IN
1998 “The Paintings Invite You In”, Des Moines Sunday Register, 7/5/98
1995 “On Visiting Edward Hopper’s Studio”, Oberlin Alumni Magazine Spring ’95, front and back
cover reproductions, feature article
1995 “Edward Hopper: His Legacy for Artists” by Gail Levin in Edward Hopper and the American
Imagination, exhibition catalogue by the Whitney Museum of American Art
AWARDS, HONORS
2012 Residency in Edward Hopper’s former painting studio in S. Truro, MA on Cape Cod
(14th residency since 1983)
2009 Brenner Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art
2007 Panelist at National Conference on Representational Painting, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
ART MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA
Indiana University Art Museum, IN
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
Saginaw Art Museum, MI
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Wilson College Permanent Collection, Chambersburg, PA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bank of America, Baltimore, MD Midlantic Bank, New York, NY
Bank of Boston, Boston, MA PECO Energy, Philadelphia, PA
Black and Decker, Baltimore, MD Pespsico, New York, NY
Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, IL Russ Reynolds Associates, New York, NY
DuPont Corporation, Wilmington, DE Sheppard Pratt Health Systems, Baltimore, MD
Ernst and Whinney, New York, NY Texas Commerce Bank, Houston, TX
Freeport McMoRan, New Orleans, LA United States Information Agency, Prague
Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ USAA, San Antonio, TX
MBNA American, Wilmington, DE Washington Post, Washington, DC
Mitsui Bank, New York, NY
EDUCATION
1972 MFA in Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1970 BA Oberlin College, OH
1968-69 Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
1967 School of Art, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2011-2012 Unbroken Thread: Nature Paintings and the American Imagination. The Art of Philip Koch, Saginaw Art Museum, MI
2011 Unbroken Thread, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Neport News, VA
2010 Unbroken Thread, Clymer Museum of Art, Ellensburg, WA
2010 Unbroken Thread, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
2009 Unbroken Thread, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2003 New England Dreams, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2002 Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, (two artist
exhibition)
2001 Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
1999 Milton Art Museum, Milton, MA
1999 Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI
1998 Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
1996 Saginaw Art Museum, MI
1995 Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
1995 Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
1995 Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
1995 Butler Institute of American Art, Salem, OH
1994 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA
1990 Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Inside Edward Hopper’s Truro Studio: Paintings by Philip Koch, Edward Hopper House Art
Center, Nyack, NY
2011 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2011 Carbon County Cultural Project, Jim Thorpe, PA
2011 Sabbatical Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2010 JLP Gallery, Baltimore, MD (two artist exhibition)
2010 Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2009 George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Unbroken Thread, Hungerford Memorial Gallery, College of Southern Maryland,
La Plata, MD
2009 Unbroken Thread, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2008 Unbroken Thread, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
2007 Light, Forest, Sea, J.L. Pierce Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2006 Sites and Insights (two artist exhibition), Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2005 Overviews, Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2005 Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC, on-line exhibition
2004 Vision of Nature: The Landscapes of Philip Koch, University of Maryland University
College, Adelphi, MD
2004 Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC
2003-2004 Stevenson University, Baltimore, MD
2003 Bogigian Gallery, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA
2003 Leeds Gallery, Earlham College, Richmond, IN
2003 University of Wisconsin Parkside, Kenosha, WI (two artist exhibition)
2003 ERL Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
1999 Lyonswier Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
1998 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1997 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1995 Peter Bartlow Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (also 1982, 1981)
1993 Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL (also 1991)
1992 Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX (also 1988, 1986, 1984)
1991 Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC (also 1998)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Who We Are: Past and Present, Peninsula Fine Arts Center’s 50th
2012 Anniversary Exhibition, Newport News, VA
2012 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2012 Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2012 Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2012 Meredith Long & Co, Houston, TX
2011 Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2011 Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VTY
2011 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2011 Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2010 Natural and Urban Landscapes, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2010 The Great American Landscape Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2010 Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2010 Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2010 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2010 Hawthorne Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
2009 Transformations, Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2009 Green, Hawthorne Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
2009 May Landscape Exhibition, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2009 Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2009 Art About Color, Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2009 Hawthorne Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
2008 Summer Landscape Exhibition, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2008 A Sense of Place: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection of the Saginaw Art
Museum, Saginaw Art Museum, MI
2008 J. L. Pierce Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2008 Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2008 Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2008 Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2008 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2008 Art Auction, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA 2007 Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA
2007 Good Night Sun, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Payne Gallery, Moravian College,
Bethlehem, PA
2007 Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2007 Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2007 Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
2007 Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2006-2008 Art in Embassies Program, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 On Tour: A Landscapist Reconnects with his Forerunners, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine
feature article, reproductions, May/June 2012
2012 The Saginaw News, Saginaw, MI, reproduction, 2/12/12
2011 Gallery Guide: Chicago/Midwest, Spotlight: Unbroken Thread: The Art of Philip Koch,
December ‘11 issue
2011 Artist’s Upbringing Colors His Work, The Saginaw News, Saginaw, MI, 12/8/11
2011 New England Landscapes Build on Tradition, Daily Press, Newport News, VA, 9/11/11
2011 Something Deep and True: Philip Koch at Peninsula Fine Arts Center, ˆVeer magazine,
August 2011 issue
2011 Contemporary Landscapes on exhibit at CCCP, Times News, Lehighton, PA, June 23,
2011 See What the World Has to Offer Under the Great Dome by Philip Koch, Herald Mail,
June 9, Hagerstown, MD
2011 An Artist Looks at Rockwell Kent, Spring 2011 Newsletter, published by Baltimore Museum
of Art, Prints, Drawings and Photographs Society
2010 Little Treasures: “Petite” and Philip Koch Paintings at Edgewater Gallery, Seven Days,
December 22.
2010 Back East and Back to an Old Friend: A Blog Commentary by Philip Koch, The Kent
Collector journal, Fall/Winter 2010
2010 Picking Up the Threads, South Bend Tribune, 4/26/10
2010 Celebrate the Art of the Past at Elkhart Museum’s 31st Anniversary, The Elkhart Truth,
June 6.
2009 Fine Art Connoisseur, July- August ’09 issue
2009 Cape Cod Museum Features Philip Koch Exhibition, Antiques and The Arts Weekly,
June 26, 2009
2009 Art New England, June/July ’09 issue, reproduction
2009 In Hopper’s Footsteps, Art of the Cape and Islands, summer supplement to Cape Cod Life
magazine, reproductions
2009 Fine Art Connoisseur, June ’09 issue
2009 Art New England, April-May ’09 issue
2009 Maryland Public Radio (WYPR) 9 minute interview with Cultural Editor Tom Hall on
Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast
2009 Philip Koch: Spirit of Place, American Art Collector magazine, January ’09 issue,
reproductions
2009 Bold Colors: George Billis Gallery Spotlights Contemporary
2009 Landscape Painting, Southwest Art magazine, January ’09 issue
2008 Unbroken Thread: Nature Paintings and the American Imagination. The Art of Philip Koch,
University of Maryland University College Adelphi, MD, 92 page scholarly catalogue with
essay by Eva J. Allen
2008 Philip Koch Experiencing Nature, Inside and Out, by Mathias Anderson, Fine Art
Connoisseur magazine,Mar.- April ’08
2007 Maryland Public Television video feature interview filmed in artist’s studio
2007 Moravian College Magazine, Summer ’07 issue
2005 The Townsman, Andover, MA, 9/1/05
2004 New York Times, 8/27/04
2004 The Boston Globe, 9/21/04
2004 A Vision of Nature: The Landscapes of Philip Koch, University of Maryland University
College, 120 page, scholarly catalogue with essay by Eva J. Allen, Ph.D.
2004 “Imagining Nature”, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, SC 1/24/04
2003 The Boston Globe, 8/28/03
2003 Cape Cod Magazine, 8/03
2003 Cape Cod Times, 8/15-21/03
2003 “North Dakota Ties”, Grand Forks Herald, 10/19/03
2003 “Dreams Turned into Paint”, Tribune Star, Terre Haute, IN
1998 “The Paintings Invite You In”, Des Moines Sunday Register, 7/5/98
1995 “On Visiting Edward Hopper’s Studio”, Oberlin Alumni Magazine Spring ’95, front and back
cover reproductions, feature article
1995 “Edward Hopper: His Legacy for Artists” by Gail Levin in Edward Hopper and the American
Imagination, exhibition catalogue by the Whitney Museum of American Art
AWARDS, HONORS
2012 Residency in Edward Hopper’s former painting studio in S. Truro, MA on Cape Cod
(14th residency since 1983)
2009 Brenner Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art
2007 Panelist at National Conference on Representational Painting, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
ART MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA
Indiana University Art Museum, IN
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
Saginaw Art Museum, MI
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Wilson College Permanent Collection, Chambersburg, PA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bank of America, Baltimore, MD Midlantic Bank, New York, NY
Bank of Boston, Boston, MA PECO Energy, Philadelphia, PA
Black and Decker, Baltimore, MD Pespsico, New York, NY
Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, IL Russ Reynolds Associates, New York, NY
DuPont Corporation, Wilmington, DE Sheppard Pratt Health Systems, Baltimore, MD
Ernst and Whinney, New York, NY Texas Commerce Bank, Houston, TX
Freeport McMoRan, New Orleans, LA United States Information Agency, Prague
Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ USAA, San Antonio, TX
MBNA American, Wilmington, DE Washington Post, Washington, DC
Mitsui Bank, New York, NY
