David Coughtry is a Professor Emeritus at Principia College. He earned an MFA from The State University of New York at Albany in 1983, working with renowned painter Mark Greenwold and art historian Robert Bernstein. Coughtry has presented numerous solo exhibitions throughout the United States as well as participated in major traveling exhibitions such as New Response: Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River (1986), The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism (1993), Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas (1996), The Great American Paint-In (2020). He has completed many notable commissions and his art has been shown at various venues, including Middlebury College Museum, The Ringling Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Albany Institute of Art, The Chicago Art Institute Museum, The Lowe Art Museum, among others. David Coughtry is a practicing painter who makes art from his studio in Alton, IL.