The Painter of Light and Stillness Arthur Allen Cohen was a man of profound intellectual depth, a polymath whose life spanned the rigorous realms of theology, literature, and art criticism, yet it was in the quiet, luminous strokes of his oil paintings that he found a unique form of expression. Born in Manhattan in 1928 and raised in the Bronx, Cohen’s early years were marked by an extraordinary creative impulse; he was a child who drew prodigiously, capturing the world around him long before he would tackle the complexities of philosophy. His artistic journey was deeply intertwined with his…