Bernard Corey is one of New England’s premiere landscape painters. He executed paintings surely en pleinaire with sure, realistic impressionism. Primarily self-taught he did study for a brief period with Don Stone.

Memberships included the Rockport AA, Salmagundi Club, Academic Artists Association, The Allied Artists of America, Providence Water Color Club and the Guild of Boston Artists.

His vast awards include The Lazare Barth Award, No. Shore AA (1964; Academic Artist Association First Place for watercolor (1964), Harriet Lumis Award (First in Oil 1967, 1978, 1981), Helen Gould Kennedy Award (1973), Morton Donald Cotch Award (1976), Muriel Alvord Award (1979, 1983), Samuel Armour Award (1981), N.E. Heritage Award (1988), Walsh Award (1994); Rockport Art Association (many awards including) Eric Hudson Award (1969), Philip Shumaker Award (1970), Peg Leg Award (1971), Eliot Award (1972), Hibbard and the Geddes Awards (1974, 1978), Iver Rose & Rowbard Awards (1975), A.R. Strisik Award (1976), Colburn Award (1977), Everett Award (1979), Guild of Boston Artist’s Award (1980), Clark Award (1983), Ricca Award (1985, 1989), Parson’s Award (1986), Wood Award (1991), Moore Memorial Award (1993), Hibbard, Perry & Mantzouianis Awards (1994), First Prize for Oils (August 1996); Salmagundi Club, NYC (many awards including) L.B. Seley Award (1971, 1976), Thumb Box Show (1974, 1977), Kriendler Award (1975), Tuttle Award (1979), Ellis Artists Fellowship Fund Award (1980), Winsor & Newton Award (1986, 1987)); Hudson Valley Art Association, C.H. Davis Award (1981), Dole Award (1986), Ward Award (1991); Providence Watercolor Club, lst Prize (1972); Lester House, New York City, Guy Award (1977), Gold Medal (1978), Parson Award (1989, 1994), Grabach Award (1991); Allied Artists of America, Gold Medal of Honor (1973); The American Artists Professional League Gold Medal (1978); Academic Artists Assoc., Gold Medal (1975) and many more. He died near his home in Grafton, MA in 2000.

Corey diligently painted for up to 12 hours a day until the end of his life and fellow artists usually accompanied him to paint in the fields, along the streams, beaches and mountains in and around New England. Although the artist traveled throughout the world, Paris made little impression on him. He was American through-and-through and adhered to academic and impressionist traditions. Corey’s carefully painted impressionistic pleinaire canvases capture the essence of nature in all four seasons.

When asked why he never married, Corey replied in 1999, “I am married to art! She is my mistress!”

The Rockport Art Association gave Corey a retrospective exhibition (October-November 2000) saluting the artist’s profound understanding of nature and painting.