CBS News interviews the artist for the exhibition Philip Cohn: My Life's Work on view in the Alumni Gallery, in "99-year-old Philly artist shows how fine arts keeps him young."

"The important big deal is me getting in front of the canvas and working today, that's the big deal, not the show," Cohn said.

This exhibition, curated and produced by Michael Gallagher, Associate Chair of Fine Arts, includes works that span Cohn’s 75 years as a professional artist.

Although Cohn’s works have been compared to those of well-known French and Italian artists such as Renoir, Cezanne, and Bellini—whose exhibitions Cohn first saw and admired while stationed in Europe during WWII—they are made profoundly personal in their clear depiction of Cohn’s own interpretations and perceptions of the people and places around him.

Since his time in the Army, as well as his time traveling throughout Europe as sponsored by PAFA’s prestigious William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship, Cohn has traveled extensively, sketching and painting the landscapes and interactions that have continued to color his own understanding of the world.