...artist, wife looking a decade older then artist, and a model who looks as if she stepped out of a Fragonard painting. [http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/art/artist-spotlight/2013/07/27/artist-spotlight-john-koch?page=0,0] "What I paint has been created in New York out of the substance of the city, but it is very much a thing that I have made myself." John Koch ...Koch composed his persona as carefully as he arranged the objects in the still lifes and interiors he painted. He and his wife, Dora Zaslavsky, a distinguished piano coach, constructed a private world created, as Koch wrote, "out of the substance of the city." A largely self-taught artist, who spent over 4 years in Paris studying paintings at the Louvre, Koch developed a formidable technique evident in his exquisite rendering of light on surfaces; his evocation of the interplay of music and art; and his representation of the detail and texture of a New York life. [http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa615.htm]