The online exhibition
Although the exhibition at the Arcade, Bush House is currently closed, you can explore the exhibition online here
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About Alfred Cohen
The American artist Alfred Cohen (1920-2001) won a fellowship in 1949 on graduation from the Art Institute of Chicago to come to Europe for a year. He never left, studying and living in Paris and Germany before moving to London in 1960. His acclaimed exhibitions of breath-taking panoramas of the Thames, the London Docks and powerful figures based on the Commedia dell’Arte sold out. Film stars, directors and producers collected his pictures. In the mid-1960s he moved to Kent and later to Norfolk, specialising in painting the British landscape and the Channel coasts, interiors, people, and flowers.
Celebrating this twentieth-century artist on his centenary, Alfred Cohen: An American Artist in Europe charts the five main phases of his career. It highlights how Cohen’s paintings were in constant dialogue with several key modern art movements including Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, and Abstraction, and the radical evolution in his style that resulted in this powerful body of distinctive pictures.
The exhibition is a collaboration between the Alfred Cohen Art Foundation, the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, the Ben Uri Research Unit, Sainsbury’s Centre, The Courtauld Institute of Art and the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s College London. The exhibition is co-curated by Max Saunders and Sarah MacDougall
A lavishly illustrated book, including contributions from leading curators, art historians, critics and writers, is available for purchase online.