Hooded Merganser

2022 Hiram Blauvelt Art Purchase Award

James Coe is a Signature Member of the prestigious Oil Painters of America, as well as the American Impressionist Society and Society of Animal Artists.  As a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Animal Artists Jim currently serves as the Jury Chair and oversees the selection of the SAA’s annual exhibition.  For more than 30 years he has been a regular exhibitor in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s prestigious “Birds in Art” annual and in 2011 was recognized as the Museum’s 32nd Master Wildlife Artist.