Tony Couch Fly Fishing Watercolor on Paper Signed. Includes frame.

Dimensions: 19 H x 32 W in.
Framed Dimensions: 29 H x 42 W

ARTIST BIO

In the middle of the Great Depression a little boy named Tony drew pictures of airplanes on the sidewalk in front of his house in Miami, Florida. His dad was a flight-radio operator on the “Flying Boats” used for flight routes between Miami and Havana.

Tony was born in 1929, when films and newspapers were the primary source of news, entertainment, and culture. He grew up influenced by the art he saw in the Sunday funny pages. When Tony was five, Al Capp started Li’l Abner and Milton Caniff started Terry and the Pirates. Both cartoonists were consummate draftsmen telling entertaining tales. Their works inspired many young artists, including Tony.

He received a BA degree in Art from the University of Tampa, did further work at Pratt Institute in New York while an artist for Associated Press, then for years freelanced and studied with Edgar A Whitney, ANA.

A winner of over 70 awards, his work has been included in annual exhibitions of the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society and 11 art instruction publications by other authors in the U.S. and U.K.

Tony Couch has been elected to membership in the American Watercolor Society, Academic Artists Association, Allied Artists of America, Hudson Valley Art Association, Salmgundi Club, Society of Marine Painters, Watercolor West, The Pittsburgh, Georgia, Southern, and Midwest watercolor societies as well as the Whiskey Painters of America.

Source: TonyCouch.com

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