Large-game animal artist Guy Joseph Coheleach was born in New York in 1933. After studying art and graduating from Cooper Union, Coheleach worked as an illustrator. Inspiration for Guy Joseph Coheleach's paintings comes from the artist's international safaris and frequent trips to American National Parks. His skill painting large cats and other predators has won him the Society of Animal Artists Excellence Award numerous times.

His realistic oil paintings are a product of his dedication to wildlife. Even after being trampled by an elephant during one of his trips to Zambia, he continued to devote his time to painting to exotic wild animals. Guy Joseph Coheleach paintings of predatory animals, like tigers or lions, are his most sought after artworks.

Along with over a hundred one-man commercial shows in various cities, Guy Coheleach’s work has been exhibited in the National Collection of Fine Art, The White House, The Corcoran Gallery, and the Royal Ontario Museum. Visiting heads of State have received his American Eagle print, and he was the first Western artist to exhibit in Peking after World War II. In 1995 his exhibition was hosted by The Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and in 1996 by the Newark Museum.

Guy Coheleach’s paintings have received the Society of Animal Artists’ Award of Excellence an extraordinary eight times. This most prestigious honor is awarded by the curators and professors of fine art from museums and universities across America. He received the celebrated Master Artist Medal from the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in 1983, one of only nine artists both living and dead so honored at the time.