together in exhibits. He had a son, Paul E. Cohen and two daughters, Frances Tietov and Susan Evans. Cohen and his wife, lived in an Evanston 19-century house filled with paintings, books, and musical instruments (two of their three children, Susan and Frances, are professional classical musicians). Artistic practice Cohen worked in oils and mixed media. A Northwestern University faculty profile describes Cohen as "a surrealist" who "combines the metaphysical with the sensuous to express new realities of space, time, and the human figure". Cohen was a founding member of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. In the mid-fifties, he was also a part of a "new Chicago School" that included artists Leon Golub, June Leaf and Cosmo Campoli. They organized annual "Momentum Exhibitions" that caught the notice of New York critics. (See clippings from Art News, October 1955; Arts, January 1955.) George Cohen became known in the forties and fifties for his paintings and board constructions with objects and mirrors affixed to them. He is considered a major influence on and harbinger of the Chicago Imagists, as well as an important contributor nationally to developments in painting in the fifties and sixties. He received many awards and prizes, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim, and his art is owned by private and corporate collectors as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. One of his key works, "The Serpent Chooses Adam and Eve" was at the '59 Invitational. After a 1960 trip to Rome, Cohen was influenced by Etruscan and Italian art. Cohen showed many years with the Zabriskie Gallery and the Charles Alan Gallery in New York and with Richard L. Feigen in Chicago and New York. His most recent museum show was in 1981 at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 1982 he exhibited his paintings at the Frumkin Struve Gallery in Chicago. References Further reading http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0425/is_n1_v53/ai_15383221 External links Smithsonian archive Northwestern archive Modern painters American surrealist artists American Figurative Expressionism 1919 births 1999 deaths School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni 20th-century American painters American male painters University of Chicago alumni 20th-century American male artists