Samples & Related Artists

Emil Kosa Sr

Emil Jean Kosa, Sr. (1876 - 1955) was active/lived in California.  Emil Kosa Sr is known for Still life and sea-landscape painting, puppets.

A painter and craftsman, Emil Kosa Sr. was born in Czechoslovakia and emigrated to America in 1907 after working with his father as a maker of theater marionettes and in Paris as an assistant to Alphonse Mucha. 

By 1922, he was in Los Angeles with his son, Emil Jr., born in 1903.

Emil Kosa Sr. did paintings of figures from his hand-made puppet models.

Exhibition venues included the California Art Club, the Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles and the Pomona Fair.  From September 2005 to February 2006, a California Heritage Museum exhibition included a painting by Kosa, Santa Monica From the Palisades.

Sources:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
Greg Colley, Los Angeles Art Collector

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 58 auction lots for Emil Kosa Sr (of which 39 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 3 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Emil Kosa Sr as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Emil Kosa Sr in 0 of its research Essays. Emil Kosa Sr has 12 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Emil Kosa Sr available:    William Griffith,  Emil Kosa Jr,  Thomas McGlynn,  Roi Colman,  Alexander Francis Harmer,  Jean Mannheim,  William Franklin Jackson,  Charles Rollo Peters,  William Lees Judson,  Jules Eugene Pages,  Clark Hobart,  George Kennedy Brandriff,  Dedrick Brandes Stuber,  Arthur Hill Gilbert,  Charles Arthur Fries,  Benjamin Chambers Brown,  Paul De Longpre,  Ransome Gillet Holdredge,  Nell Walker (Shostrom) Warner,  Phil Dike,  Arthur Grover Rider,  Jack Wilkinson Smith,  John Hubbard Rich,  Samuel Hyde Harris