COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Gospel Church, 1958

Gelatin silver print, printed 1958-1960

Print size: 13 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches

Mounted to board. Signed, titled, dated, “print from Image Gallery” in pencil,
and artist’s copyright stamp in ink on mount verso

(P5313JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Untitled(children running, New Haven), 1955

Gelatin silver print, printed later

Paper size: 11 x 14 inches

Mounted on dark board

Signed, dated, and “Credit John Cohen” in ink on print verso

(P5375JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Josef Albers at Yale, 1955

Gelatin silver print, printed later

Paper size: 8 x 10 inches

Image size: 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches

Nothing on print verso

(P5321JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Boxer With Towel, Elm City Gym, New Haven, 1954

Gelatin silver print, printed 1954-1960

Print size: 8 x 9 3/4 inches

Mounted to board. Signed, titled, dated in pencil and artist stamp on print verso

(P5354JC)

Woven Textile, Pre-Columbian

17 x 17 inches

(P5357AFK)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Rev. Gary Davis at Grocery Store, 1954

Vintage gelatin silver print

Paper size: 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches

Image size: 4 7/8 x 7 inches

Artist copyright stamp on print verso

(P5318JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Elizabeth Cotten “Libba” at Her Home in Wash. D.C., 1960

Gelatin silver print, printed later

Paper size: 8 x 10 inches

Image size: 6 5/16 x 9 1/4 inches

Signed, titled, dated in pencil, with artist stamp on print verso

(P5358JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Woody Guthrie and Jack Elliott, 1961

Gelatin silver print, printed 1999

Paper size: 8 x 10 inches

Image size: 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches

Signed, titled, with print and image date in pencil on print verso

(P1530JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Muddy Waters, 1959

Gelatin silver print, printed 1970s

Paper size: 8 x 10 inches

Image size: 6 x 9 inches

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil with artist stamp on print verso

(P1218JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Bob Dylan on my Roof, 1962

Vintage gelatin silver print

Paper size: 15 x 10 inches

Image size: 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches

Mounted onto Bainbridge board; tracing paper with diagram pencil drawing over the image and printing notes; target stickers on either side of mounted image. Used for “Dylan” book co-published by Rolling Stone Press and Doubleday, 1984. This is the earlier known image of the print, likely made by a commercial printer shortly after it was taken.

(P2365JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Bill Monroe in Hazard KY, 1962

Gelatin silver print, printed later

Paper size: 8 x 10 inches

Image size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches

Artist copyright stamp on print verso

(P1154JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Black Gold, E. Kentucky, 1959

Vintage gelatin silver print on single weight paper

Paper size: 10 x 8 inches

Image size: 9 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso

(P5352JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Family on Porch, Hazard KY, 1959

Vintage gelatin silver print on single weight paper

Paper size: 10 x 8 inches

Image size: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches

Signed and dated in pencil on print verso

(P5353JC)

smith, harry (1923 - 1991)

Untitled, date unknown

String figure glued to black construction paper

Frame size: 10 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches

Image size: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches

(P5363HS)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Rooster and Hen, date unknown

Ink drawing

Paper size: 14 x 17 inches

Image size: 14 x 17 inches

(P5362JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Religious Procession, Isle Taquile, Peru, 1956

Gelatin silver print, printed later

Paper size: 11 x 14 inches

Image size: 8 5/8 x 13 1/4 inches

Signed, titled, dated, and artist negative number in pencil on print verso

(P5360JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Train to Huancavalica, Huancayo, Peru, 1964

Early gelatin silver print

Paper size: 11 x 14 inches

Image size: 8 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches

(P5361JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Girl with Ox, Peru, date unknown

Early gelatin silver print

Paper size: 11 x 14 inches

Image size: 8 5/8 x 13 1/4 inches

(P5359JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Funeral, Huancayo, Peru, 1956

Gold toned gelatin silver print, printed 1981 – 1982 on Agfa Paper

Paper size: 10 x 8 inches

Image size: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches

Signed in pencil on print verso

(P2895JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Lima, Peru, 1957

Gelatin silver print, printed 1970s or earlier

Paper size: 11 x 14 inches

Image size: 9 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso

(P2548JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Road to Ayacucho, Peru, 1956

Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s

Print size: 9 x 6 inches

Mounted to wood block. Signed, titled, dated in ink, and noted in pencil on mount verso

(P5356JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Quero, Peru, 1957

Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s

Paper size: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches

Image size: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches

Mounted to wood block. Signed, titled, and dated in ink on mount verso

(P5355JC)

COHEN, John (1932 - 2019) & ISRAEL, MarVin (1927 - 2007)

Collage, 1955/1957

Collage made for artist’s exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery, 1958

Size: 14 x 9 inches

Collage on board with printed text. Mounted on cardboard.

Signed, titled, dated 1955 and "John Cohen + Martin Israel 1957" in pencil on verso

(P5364JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Harry Smith at the Chelsea Hotel, 1969

Gelatin silver print, printed 2000 by Sid Kaplan

Paper size: 14 x 11 inches

Image size: 12 1/4 x 8 inches

Signed, titled, and dated with print and image dates in pencil on print verso

(P5365JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Gregory Corso, Pablo, Mary and Robert Frank, “Pull My Daisy”, 1959

Gelatin silver print, printed later

Paper size: 14 x 11 inches

Image size: 13 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil with negative number in pencil on print verso

(P5366JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Frank with Camera in Kitchen, 1959

Gelatin silver print, printed later

Paper size: 10 x 8 inches

Image size: 9 x 6 inches

Signed and dated in pencil on print verso

(P5142JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Richard Bellamy (as Angel) talks with George Segal during filming of “Sin of Jesus”, 1960

Gelatin silver print, printed later

Paper size: 8x 10 inches

Image size: 6 x 9 inches

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil with artist’s stamp on print verso

(P1512JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Untitled still life from garden (flower), date unknown

Watercolor painting

Paper size: 10 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches

(P5367JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Untitled, still life from garden (lettuce), date unknown

Watercolor painting

Paper size: 10 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches

(P5368JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Untitled, still life from garden, 2017

Ink drawing

Paper size: 18 1/8 x 11 7/8 inches

Dated in pencil on recto

(P5369JC)

Sing Out Magazine, July 1964

Includes photographs and essays by John Cohen

Click here to read John Cohen’s articles

Exhibition Announcements:

Image Gallery Christmas Show (1960)

Limelight: John Cohen (1957)

Sing Out Magazine, 1961

Includes photographs and essays by John Cohen

Click here to read John Cohen’s articles

FRANK, Robert (1924 - 2019)

John Cohen, 1958

Gelatin silver print, printed later

Paper size: 14 x 11 inches

Image size: 9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches

Titled, dated and “print by: Robert Frank” in pencil on print verso

(P5372RF)

The New Lost City Ramblers: On the Great Divide, 1973

12.5 x 12.5 inches

Record

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Downhill Strugglers(Jackson Lynch, Eli Smith and Walker Shepard), c. 2012

Gelatin silver print, print date unknown

Paper size: 11 x 14 inches

Image size: 6 x 9 3/16 inches

Nothing on print verso

(P5371JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Leatherwood, Kentucky, 1959

Gelatin silver print, printed 1970s or before

Paper size: 11 x 14 inches

Image size: 7 x 8 1/2 inches

Mounted to matt board.

Signed twice, titled, dated twice in pencil on mount recto. Label from Bowdoin on mount verso

(P1605JC)

Exhibited: The Spirit of the New Landscape, 1978, Bowdoin College Museum of Art., Brunswick, Maine.

New Lost City Ramblers Volume 4, 1962

Left to right: Tom Paley, Mike Seger, John Cohen (with guitare)

Cover photograph by Robert Frank

12.5 x 12.5 inches

LP Record

COHEN, John    (1932 - 2019)

What Do Thoughts Look Like? 1949

Handwritten note on 8 ½ x 11 inch paper

This homework assignment, written by Cohen age 17, serves as inspiration for the title of this exhibition. Note his teacher’s comments.

High Atmosphere: Ballads and Banjo Tunes from Virginia and North Carolina collected by John Cohen in 1965

Cover photograph of Appalachian musician Lloyd Chandler by John Cohen. Chandler is credited with writing O Death, a song featured in the Coen Brothers’ film, O Brother Where Art Thou

12.5 x 12.5 inches

LP Record

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Mailboxes, Perry County, Kentucky, 1959

Gelatin silver print, printed 1970s

Paper size: 14 x 11 inches

Image size: 9 x 6 1/4 inches

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on mount recto

Details of print in another hand in pencil on mount verso

(P1606JC)

Exhibited: The Spirit of the New Landscape, 1978, Bowdoin College Museum of Art., Brunswick, Maine.

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Chickens at E.C. Ball’s Mountain Form, Rugby N.C.(aka Abby Road), 1965

Gelatin silver print

Paper size: 8 x 10 inches

Image size: 4 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches

Signed, titled, dated, “EC Ball in background” and “(Abby Road)” in pencil on print verso

(P5374JC)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Jazz Dancer James “Jimmy” Berry, 1955

Vintage gelatin silver print

Paper size: 11 x 14 inches

Image size: 9 3/16 x 11 1/2 inches

Artist copyright stamp in ink on print verso

(P5370JC)

Woven Textile, Pre-Columbian

16 7/8 x 16 7/8 inches

(P5482AFK)

COHEN, JOHN (1932 - 2019)

Untitled (tree trunk), date unknown

Ink drawing

Paper size: 13 3/4 x 11 inches

Nothing on print verso

(P5373JC)