Biographical Information

Henry Koehler
1927 American

Henry Koehler was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1927 and currently lives and works in Southampton, New York. He graduated from Yale University, and shortly after that had illustrations published by "The New Yorker", "Town and Country", and "Sports Illustrated".

He has painted several commission portraits of well-known thoroughbreds but prefers genre pieces depicting horse-racing, polo games, and hunting in the field with horses. He has become noted for his sensitive studies of jockey figures before and after their race. His work is known not only for its accuracy and atmospheric qualities, but also for the intimate rendering of related objects such as a jockey's silks, and a hunter's boots, whip and saddle. His subjects range from jockeys and racing to polo, fox hunting and fishing, dogs and other animals, and garden and still life scenes.

His first shows were in 1961 at the Country Art Gallery in Long Island, New York and the Spook Farm Gallery, in New Jersey. Since then, Mr. Koehler has exhibited widely throughout the United States, Ireland, England, South Africa, and France. His works are in the collections of the National Racing Museum in Saratoga and the National Horse Racing Museum in Newmarket.