WHAT THOUGHTS LOOK LIKE
THE FABRIC OF JOHN COHEN’S LIFE
OCTOBER 22 - DECEMBER 22, 2022
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
Exhibition Announcements:
Image Gallery Christmas Show (1960)
Limelight: John Cohen (1957)
Sing Out Magazine, 1961
Includes photographs and essays by John Cohen
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)