Emil Jean Kosa, Jr. (1903 - 1968)

Emil Jean Kosa, Jr. (1903 - 1968)
Olivera Street (Los Angeles)
Etching
11" x 9"
Pencil signed in lower right margin: by Emil Kosa
Framed to 18 1/4" x 15 1/4"

Kosa spent the last 35 years of his life working for 20th Century Fox studios as a special effects artist. In 1963 he won an Oscar for his work on Cleopatra. During this time Kosa, along with maintaining a studio-home in LA, decorated churches, theatres, and private homes and continued teaching in Laguna Beach, California.

Kosa exhibited at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1940, the Biltmore Salon in Los Angeles in 1941 (The Cowie Gallery, located in the Biltmore Hotel, had several one-man shows every year and included his work in all of their group showings). He also showed his works in many other locals nationally including the Carnegie Institute, the Denver Museum, and the Frye Museum. He won dozens of awards in California and nationally from 1928-1961. He is represented in many museums across the United States including the LACMA, the Santa Barbara Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, and the San Diego Museum.