Forty-Two Solo Exhibitions between 1929 and 1980 include:
Little Gallery of American Federation of Artists, Cedar Rapids, IA, 1929
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1932
Seattle Art Museum, 1937, 1951
Portland Art Museum, 1946, 1952
Willamette University, 1956, 1970
University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1958, 1963, 1967, 1977
Portland State University, 1973
Governor’s Invitational, Salem OR, 1980.
Group Exhibitions from 1929 to 1986 include:
American Show, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1929, 1936
Chicago International Watercolor Show, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1929, 1931, 1934 – 1938
Tiffany Foundation Group Exhibit, Amer-Anderson Gallery, New York, 1931
Annual Exhibit of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1933, 1937
Whitney Museum of Art First Biennial Exhibit of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Prints, New York, 1933
Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by Chicago Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1933
A Century of Progress, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933
Annual All-Oregon Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, 1934 -35, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1952
Paintings by Artists West of the Mississippi, Denver Art Museum, 1935 - 1937, 1940, 1945, 1955, 1956
Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum, 1935 – 1937, 1940, 1948, 1954 -55
Paintings by Young Americans, Walker Gallery, New York, 1935
Fifteenth-Annual Exhibition of Watercolors, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1936
Carnegie Institute’s International Traveling Exhibition, 1936
Treasury Department Art Projects, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1936
Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1936
American Artists Congress Show, Portland Art Museum, 1937
Golden Gate International Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, 1939
IBM Corporation Collection of Art from 48 States, San Francisco World’s Fair, 1940,
Twelve Oregon Painters, Portland Art Museum, 1940
St. Louis Art Museum Show, St. Louis, MO, 1941
American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1952 – 1953
Eighty-Seventh Annual Exhibit of the American Watercolor Society, National Gallery, New York, 1954 – 1955
Eighteenth Annual Exhibit of Drawings and Prints, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1954
Seventy-Fourth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1955
Twentieth Annual Watercolor Exhibit, San Francisco Art Association, 1956
Paintings and Sculpture of the Pacific Northwest, Portland Art Museum, 1959
Twenty-First Annual Exhibit of Watercolors, Seattle Art Museum, 1961
Invitational Exhibit of Northwest Art Today, Seattle World’s Fair, 1962
Virginia Haseltine Collection Exhibit, University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1963
Paintings by Contemporary Artists of the West, University of Arizona, 1966
Art of the Pacific Northwest—National Collection of Fine Art, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC, 1973
Art of the Pacific Northwest : The 1930’s Through the Present, Seattle Art Museum, 1974
Northwest Artists, University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1980
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Seattle Art Museum, 1985
Retrospective Exhibitions:
University of Oregon Museum of Art (now the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art), 1985
Littman Gallery, Portland State University, 1986
David McCosh Exhibition Series, University of Oregon Museum of Art (now the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art), 1993 - 1994
Community Favorites from the David McCosh Collection, University of Oregon Museum of Art (now the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art), 2000
The Making of David McCosh: Early Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 2011
Shows at Karin Clarke Gallery, Eugene, OR:
David McCosh and the Promise of Oregon:Paintings and Drawings of Oregon and the Northwest (1934-73), 2005
The Portrait as a Mirror, 2005
Collaborations with my Subject: Works from 1928-1969, 2006
The Places that Made Me a Painter, 2007
The Night Drawings, 2009
Selected Works from the Oregon Years: 1934-1965, 2011
Selected List of Collections:
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
Gordon Gilkey Print Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Kaiser Foundation, Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
State University of New York, Oswego, NY
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
