Guy Coheleach

Who is Guy Coheleach?

Guy Coheleach is an American wildlife artist. His paintings have been in 41 one-man retrospective exhibitions in major museums in 32 cities from New York to Los Angeles from 1991 to 2011. Along with over a hundred one-man commercial shows worldwide, his work has also been exhibited in the National Collection of Fine Art, the Royal Ontario Museum, the White House, Washington D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery, the Norton Gallery and the Newark Museum.

Visiting Heads of State have received his American Eagle print, and he was the first Western artist to exhibit in Peking after World War II. Coheleach became a charter member of The World Wildlife Fund's "The 1001: A Nature Trust" in 1972. His endowment at the University of Tennessee provides about six full scholarships to the School of Wildlife Management each year.

Coheleach was born in New York City in 1933. He grew up on Long Island and went to Bishop Loughlin High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. He served in the Korean War as the S-2 for the 65th Combat Engineers attached to the 25th Infantry Division. He then attended and graduated from Cooper Union School of Art in 1956. . He received an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from William and Mary.