Figures
Dublin Core
Title
Figures
Creator
Kovatch, Jak Gene
Format
48 x 39 inches
Identifier
536
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Biography
Jak Kovatch is a printmaker and painter. Early in his career, he worked in the Walt Disney Studios’ animation department, where he designed stage sets, and also worked as a freelance illustrator. He has spent more than 45 years teaching art design students. He has exhibited his work locally, nationally, and internationally. A longtime Westport resident and former faculty member of The Famous Artist School, Jak Kovatch has been recognized nationally and internationally since 1949 when he first exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Since 1952 Kovatch has been working on a series of etchings, paintings, sculpture exploring human form. A native of Los Angeles, he studied at art in California and at the Art Students League, New York. For many years, while going to school or painting in the daytime, he was on call nights and weekends for X-ray duty in hospital and clinic ER, gaining valuable information about the human body and its working. He is on the Silvermine faculty, teaching life drawing, and a member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists.
Category
Bicentennial Trust Collection
Media
Mixed media
Media Details
Mixed media on gesso
Signature Position
Signed, lower center
Collection
Citation
Kovatch, Jak Gene, “Figures,” Westport Public Schools Digital Collections, accessed June 15, 2021, https://collections.westportps.org/items/show/622.
Item Relations
| This Item | dcterms:relation | Item: Staples Art Storage |
| This Item | dcterms:creator | Item: Jak Gene Kovatch |