Kosa, Emil Jean Jr.

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Kosa, Emil Jean Jr.

Kosa, Emil Jean Jr. (1903-1968).

Los Angeles City Hall and Times Building from Bunker Hill by Emil Jean Kosa, Jr. (1903-1968)

14.5" x 20.75", Watercolor/Paper, Signed Lower Left

Est.: $20,000 - $30,000
Sold by John Moran Auctioneers for $60,380 on 6/19/2007
ARTIST WORLD RECORD

Painter, muralist, lithographer. Born in Paris, France on Nov. 28, 1903.

Kosa moved to the U. S. With his family at age four.

Art studies were begun as a teenager at the Prague Academy and continued at the California Art Institute in Los Angeles (1927), and Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1927-28) under Kupka and Laurens.

Upon his return to the U.S., he studied and taught at Chouinard and Otis Art Institutes in LA.

During the last 35 years of his life he was a special effects artist for 20th Century Fox Studios and in 1963 won an Oscar for his work on "Cleopatra."

While maintaining a studio-home in LA, Kosa decorated churches, theaters, and private homes and often taught in nearby Laguna Beach.

His oeuvre includes portraits, seascapes, landscapes, figures, and florals in oil and watercolor.

He died in LA on Nov. 4, 1968.

Member: NA; American WC Society; Calif. WC Society (pres. 1945-46); Calif. Art Club; LAAA.

Exhibited: GGIE, 1939; LACMA, 1940; Biltmore Salon (LA), 1941; AIC; NAD; PAFA; CGA; Carnegie Inst.; MM; Denver Museum; Frye Museum; and many others nationally.

Awards: dozens from 1928-61 in Calif. And nationally.

Works held: NAD; CSL; Santa Barbara Museum; LACMA; Boston Museum of FA; Springfield (MA) Museum; Washington State College; Dover (DE) High School; San Diego Museum; Cranbrook Academy; Mormon Church, Salt Lake City.

Los Angeles Painters of the 1920s; So. Calif. Artists 1890-1940; CA&A; SCA; WWAA 1936-66; WWC 1942; Who's Who in

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