The Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts (COTA) is pleased to announce that it has selected artist Robert E. (Bob) Doney for the 2009 Festival poster designed to promote COTA’s 32nd Annual Jazz & Arts Festival, which will be held in the Borough of Delaware Water Gap, Friday-Sunday, September 11 – 13th.

This is the fourth time the COTA poster will feature his work. The 85-year-old Doney still maintains a studio-gallery at his home in Pen Argyl and is best known for his 'plein air' paintings and regional landscapes painted on site in quick, expressive brush strokes. He often sketches in pen-and-ink, then brushes on watercolor.

COTA Festival-goers have watched him execute scenes of the Festival over many years, with his easel parked near the Main Stage. Doney regularly displays and sells his works at COTA in one of the artisan tents flanking the walkway to the stage. His work appears in private collections throughout the American Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.

Doney studied at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn NY), Kutztown University, and Columbia Teachers College (New York City). He taught at Lehigh University, Northampton Community College, and in Pennsylvania public schools for 29 years.

Throughout his life, Doney has painted landscapes wherever he has traveled, including France, England, Italy, and along the USA Atlantic seacoast, from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to Rehoboth Beach, Maryland. He has received awards from the American Watercolor Society, Watercolor USA, the Allentown Art Museum, and the Rehoboth Art League.

THE 2009 COTA POSTER IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE IN OUR STORE. CLICK HERE