Jack Coughlin

Jack Coughlin (1932-2025) was well known for his strong graphic portraits of literary figures and musicians. His prints, drawings, and watercolors have been exhibited widely across the United States and in Europe and are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Collection of Arts in Washington and in many other museum, university and library collections worldwide. As a member of the National Academy of Design, he had received numerous awards and prizes and his literary portraits are regularly commissioned for the “New Republic”.

Jack Coughlin was born in Greenwich, Connecticut and was a Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Art Students League in New York and resided part time in Wellfleet, MA.

Coughlin’s prints were selected for Associated American Artists’ 1966 ‘New Talent in Print-Making’ Exhibition. Since that time he has been honored by one-man shows throughout the U.S. as well as in Dublin, Ireland and Florence, Italy. He frequently participates in group exhibitions including the 150th Annual Exhibition, the National Academy of Design, 1975 and in 1976 the 3rd Norwegian International Print Biennale and the 4th International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Frechen, Germany. Coughlin has contributed original prints to several volumes of poetry, most of which have been published in Ireland.

Widely respected as a print-maker of exceptional draftsmanship, he also is known for his low relief sculptures in the lost wax-bronze casting technique. Coughlin approached both the world of the intellect and the instinct with equal respect and sensitivity, treating then both in a figurative, humanistic way.

SOURCE - https://www.rmichelson.com/artists/jack-coughlin/ (Sept, 2025) & https://cortilegallery.com/artists/etchings-woodcuts/about-jack-coughlin/ (Sept, 2025)