BiographyCarol Cottone Kolthoff earned her MFA and BFA in drawing and painting from California State University Long Beach. She also minored in art history. She attended Loyola-Marymount University, Los Angeles for teaching certification. Carol has studied with contemporary Los Angeles figurative painter, Joyce Treiman and Daniel Green, well known East Coast portrait painter.
.In 2003, one of Carol's large oil paintings, depicting a Navy Honor guard, was selected by the Navy Art Collection, for inclusion in their permanent collection. The painting, First Call, is now hanging at the Pentagon in Washington DC, in the Office of the the Navy. |
Whether painting architecture, animals, landscape or the human figure, Carol’s work is firmly grounded in the formal elements of composition, color, value, design and strengthened by proficient drawing ability. Though at first glance, her work is realistic, it is held together based on the abstract principles of structure and form. “I have been strongly influenced by American realists such as Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer and the Ash Can School with a smattering of Mary Cassatt and Norman Rockwell thrown in to warm things up a bit!”
There is no surprise that much of her subject matter gravitates toward the sea or influenced by it’s imagery. Carol is from an Italian fishing family rooted in San Pedro, California, where she was born. She married David Kolthoff, a naval officer, who is a marine architect, and moved to Monterey, Ca. They now live in San Diego with their daughter, Katie, who is attending the University of San Diego, three cats and a bird.
Carol’s preferred media are oil, watercolor and colored pencil.
Carol has been teaching art since 1980 at the university and college level.
Including CSULB, Marymount College, Monterey Peninsula College, Palomar College, Southwestern College, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art.
For the past 10 years, Carol has been on the teaching staff of UCSD Extension Art Department in La Jolla, California.
There is no surprise that much of her subject matter gravitates toward the sea or influenced by it’s imagery. Carol is from an Italian fishing family rooted in San Pedro, California, where she was born. She married David Kolthoff, a naval officer, who is a marine architect, and moved to Monterey, Ca. They now live in San Diego with their daughter, Katie, who is attending the University of San Diego, three cats and a bird.
Carol’s preferred media are oil, watercolor and colored pencil.
Carol has been teaching art since 1980 at the university and college level.
Including CSULB, Marymount College, Monterey Peninsula College, Palomar College, Southwestern College, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art.
For the past 10 years, Carol has been on the teaching staff of UCSD Extension Art Department in La Jolla, California.
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The San Diego Watercolor Society,
San Diego Museum of Art Artist’s Guild Women Artists of the West |
Publications |
American Artist Magazine, “Masking For Control and Spontaneity in the Watercolors of Carol Cottone-Kolthoff,” The Watercolor Page, M. Stephen Doherty, November 2003.
American Artist Magazine, featured artist in: “Marketing Your Art,” Christopher Willard, 1998. Christian, Peggy. Chocolate, A Glacier Grizzly. Benefactory/Humane Society of the United States, 1997. A children’s book illustrated by Carol Cottone-Kolthoff, Peggy Christian-author. The Artist’s Magazine, “Carol Cottone-Kolthoff- Paintings that Fly,” Carol Katchen, Oct. 1996. Splash 3: Ideas and Inspirations Rachel Wolf, ed., North Light Books, Cincinnati, OH Oct. 1994 |
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