Keough, Tom

in Memoriam (1958-2025)

Website:   www.tomkeough.art

For the last thirty years of Tom’s life, he worked primarily in oil and watercolor. Before that, it was mainly black and white pen drawings or linoleum prints. He started to paint in oils in response to the more immediate elements of the world close at hand, especially the urban environment around me and the beauty of the Catskills. 

Over the years Tom exhibited regularly at galleries- most often at the Hal Bromm Gallery in Tribeca. Various galleries in Brooklyn have hosted Keough’s work lately, including Ossam Gallery and ShapeShifter in Park Slope, and at various Brooklyn Public Libraries. Upstate New York venues- like the Riverstone Art and Design Gallery in Haverstraw- have also hosted shows. And he has had extensive exposure in museums and prestigious venues near and far:

The Museum of Modern Art, the Moenche Haus Museum in Gussler, Germany. He has shown in the United Nations, the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee Chambers, St. Thomas Cathedral in Rockefeller Center, at the Gallery of the Interchurch Center, the headquarters of the National Council of Churches, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, the Society of Illustrators, and at other alternative art spaces in Manhattan like the Theater for the New City and St. Peter's Church in the Citicorp Building. His art is in the collection of New York Life Insurance Company, the Brooklyn Hospital Center (formerly in Prospect Park, Brooklyn), Brooklyn Woods, the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, and CenterLight Health Care in East Harlem. 

Tom has published many portraits and comics of various kinds over the years, and was a regular contributor to World War 3 Illustrated. His various art has appeared in many periodicals and books (including textbooks).

The Addison Ripley Gallery in Washington D.C. installed a large Hemlock print in the U.S. Embassy in Jamaica (West Indies), which has also been on display in several locations in New York City.

I paint landscapes- many at night. I focus on the relationships between nature and modern human creation. I show what can be discovered and appreciated close at hand. I present my views to neighbors and the world validating our communities. 
-Tom Keough, 2009
To inquire about Tom’s work please email tomkeough.art@gmail.com. or visit the website under construction

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