Early Life and Artistic Training Born in 1937 in Windham, Connecticut, Alan Cote began his life in a landscape that would eventually yield a dedicated practitioner of the visual arts. His early years in the United States provided the foundation for a life defined by the study of form and color. This formative period led him toward the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, where he spent the years between 1955 and 1960 honing his craft. It was within these academic walls that his technical abilities were first shaped, moving him from a student of basic principles toward…