John Cote Paintings, Saplings and Arias

Cote is schooled in that great illustrative tradition where animals act as stand-ins for the human condition while still remaining themselves. Depictions both desperate and sweet; A 40 foot Atlantic City Pier horse diving act, a tic tac toe playing chicken in a vending machine in Chinatown, a pig you could converse with for a shilling in mid eighteenth century London. Animals, like the working poor, jumping through hoops. John Cote paintings SAPLINGS AND ARIAS, January 3rd through February 28th in the Ottinger Room of The Croton Free Library, 171 Cleveland Drive, Croton on Hudson. Library hours.