Size: 20" x 20"
Medium: Acrylic
Artist: George Kocar
Inspired by: "My Cat is Fat" by Gabriela from Buhrer Dual Language Academy
Suggested Value: $500.00

"My wife and I have always had cats and are amazed by their different personalities. A few of our cats were fat."

George Kocar is a Bay Village resident. As well as being an artist and illustrator he was a adjunct faculty member of Ashland University. George has had over fifty solo shows. He has exhibited his work in over five hundred group shows across the United States, most notably numerous Butler Mid-year Shows in Youngstown, Ohio, and The Cleveland Museum of Art May Show. He has won numerous awards including a Jurors Award at the Butler Institute of Art in 1985 and 1998, and Best of Show at the Ohio Exposition Center in Columbus, Ohio in 1998. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art.
His illustrations have graced the pages of numerous newspapers and magazines including, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Esquire, Playboy, GQ, The New York Times and the Washington Post. His work has been included in several annuals, including AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION 2 and 3, and OUTSTANDING ILLUSTRATORS TODAY 2.