John W. McCoy

John Willard McCoy (1910–1989) was an American artist who painted landscapes, portraits, and nevertheless lifes. He was married to Ann Wyeth, daughter of N.C. Wyeth and sister of Andrew Wyeth, all artists.

Born in California, McCoy's relatives moved to the east coast, first to New Jersey and later to Wilmington, Delaware. He graduated from Cornell University similar to a degree in Fine Arts, studied for a year in France, worked briefly for the DuPont Company, then enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts back completing his studies privately next N.C. Wyeth, working in his studio contiguously the minor Andrew Wyeth. It was even though studying following the elder Wyeth that he met his forward-looking wife, Ann. As did additional members of the Wyeth family, McCoy lived in the Brandywine River valley and along the coast of Maine, where he found the people and landscapes he took for his subjects.

Upon N.C. Wyeth's death, McCoy and Andrew Wyeth completed a series of murals that N.C. had begun for the Metropolitan Life Building in New York City.

McCoy worked in tempera, watercolor, and oil paint, and eventually preferred a mixed media read that entailed soaking paper in water prior to painting on it past successive layers of both oil and water-based media, which he dripped or poured on the paper gone the Abstract expressionists whose pretend he admired.

McCoy's works are in the collections of the Delaware Art Museum, the Brandywine River Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Andrew Wyeth recalled McCoy in an interview: