September 20, 2023

Somerville Manning Gallery in Greenville, DE just hung new paintings by Philip Koch in their gallery. Here is Koch's oil  Scarlet Forest II on the left, with a drawing by Jamie Wyeth of a pig on the far wall.



Last week Koch gave the annual endowed Outten Visiting Artist lecture on his painting career at the Maier Museum of Art in Lynchburg, VA. The museum recently acquired a drawing by Koch that had been partly inspired by a painting in the museum's permanent collection, Edward Hopper's oil Mrs. Scott's House from 1942. Here is the Maier's Curator of Education Laura McManus with Koch and the Hopper.






August 29, 2023

The Sept/Oct issue of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine is out with this photo taken in June at the reception for Courthouse Gallery Fine Art's Bold Color exhibition. Here are gallery director Karin Wilkes with Philip Koch. They're standing with Koch's oil of Edward Hopper's former studio on Cape Cod.




August 12, 2023



Maier Museum of Art in Lynchburg, VA has invited Philip Koch to give the museum's annual endowed Outten Lecture on Sept. 13. 2023. Koch will trace some of the key influences that have shaped his painting career, including artists in the Maier's collection. Free and open to the public. 6pm Reception, 7pm lecture. Here's a link to the museum's announcement of the talk.https://maiermuseum.org/event/the-outten-visiting-artist-lecture-philip-koch/




July 4, 2023

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA hung Philip Koch's drawing Edward Hopper's Studio, Truro in their new exhibition Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection. The drawing was partly inspired by Maier's Edward Hopper oil Mrs. Scott's House from 1931. The museum installed the pieces in adjacent galleries so they can be seen simultaneously.





June 10, 2023

On Wed. June 7 Philip Koch along with Rick Fox and Philip Frey participated in a Zoom presentation about their paintings in the Bold Color exhibition at Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, ME (June 12 - July 7, 2023).

Click to view the Zoom presentation

One of Koch's paintings in the exhibition is Ascension, oil on panel, 40 x 32 inches-




May 29, 2023

From June 12 - July 7, 2023 Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, Maine will hold a three artist exhibition Bold Color including a significant group of Koch oils. There will be a reception for the exhibit June 21, 5 - 7 p.m. One painting included in the show is September Cove, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches, 2023.







May 4, 2023

A large group of Philip Koch's paintings will be included in a 3 artist exhibition June 12 - July 7, 2023 at Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, ME. Koch will be attending the opening reception for the show Wednesday June 21, 5 - 7p.m. One of Koch's paintings included in the exhibition will be  Canopy, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, 2023.





April 6, 2023

Koch's painting Truro Afternoon, oil on panel, 14 x 21, 2021 is displayed in the Members Exhibition at Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center in Nyack, NY (April 1-9, 2023). The painting was begun on location in Hopper's Cape Cod studio during one of Koch's residencies there. Hopper House produced a two minute video with Koch speaking about his painting- https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqoaCw4saRr/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet




March 28,2023



Last weekend- Philip and his wife Alice (on left) with Anna Marley, head Curator at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Anna gave a personal tour of her major exhibition Making American Artists. Edward Hopper's oil from the exhibition in the background. 



March 6, 2023

At Sommerville Manning Gallery last weekend, Philip Koch with his large painting The Reach IV hanging on the gallery walls with three Andrew Wyeth paintings. Says Koch "This is one of my all time favorite paintings. It's an honor for me to hang alongside Wyeth, an artist I have been admiring and studying ever since I started out as an art studen."





February 10, 2023

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College has acquired Koch's drawing Edward Hopper's Studio, Truro for their Permanent Collection. The drawing was inspired both by Koch's many residencies in the historic Hopper studio and by the 1932 oil Hopper painted Mrs. Scott's House that depicts a house a few hundred yards from Hopper's studio in Truro on Cape Cod.







September 15, 2022 

Courthouse Gallery Fine Art in Ellsworth, ME has a new exhibition that includes a group of new Koch paintings. The show runs Sept. 7- Oct. 15, 2022. Among them are (top) Ascension , oil on canvas, 50 x 32 inches, and (bottom) Maine Islands, oil on panel, 7 1/2 x 17 inches.






  


August 6, 2022 
Carl Little's review of Ogunquit Museum of American Art's exhibition Philip Koch: Isle of Dreams is in July/Aug issue of Art New England magazine. 


July 12, 2022

Ogunquit Museum of American Art made in Maine made a video (50 min.) of the public talk 6/28 about their exhibition Philip Koch: Isle of Dreams.
Watch the video - https://youtu.be/Qt8v5q6kiFc 




June 6, 2022
Maine's state wide paper, the Press Herald, published this photo of Ogunquit Museum's show of Koch's paintings on the front page of their second section June 4.


June 5, 2022

Writing in the Sunday Herald Press (Maine's state-wide newspaper) on 5/15/22 the paper's art critic Jose Arrango previewed the Ogunquit Museum of American Art's season:
"The summer schedule is ambitiously packed, but three shows concentrating on daring and unconventional modernist landscapes promise to be particularly interesting: “Philip Koch: Isle of Dreams” (now through July 19)..."

May 1, 2022

Fine Art Connoisseur's May issue has a full page feature on Ogunquit Museum of American Art's new exhibition Philip Koch: Isle of Dreams.