Cora Cohen (1943–2023)
New York–based painter Cora Cohen has died at the age of seventy-nine. Born in New York City in 1943, Cohen earned BA and MA degrees at Bennington College in Vermont, where her teachers included the painter Paul Feeley and the critic and curator Lawrence Alloway. Starting with an exhibition at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, in 1974 at the invitation of James Harithas, Cohen had an extensive exhibition history, yet she remained—as Barry Schwabsky remarked in a recent review of an exhibition of Cohen’s work of the 1980s—“one of the most underrated painters in New York.” For all that,
