Garcia’s widow, Deborah Koons Garcia, spoke to Art & Object about her late husband's art. “He started drawing when he was a child,” said Koons Garcia. “He had asthma and since there were no good treatments for that at that time, he spent a lot of time indoors and quiet. He filled his time drawing. He studied art as a teenager and drew off and on as an adult. In his forties he became more serious about visual art and spent quite a bit of time drawing and painting.”
Koons Garcia, from whose collection these items come to auction, characterized her former husband’s art as “maybe cartoony, or nightmarish,” and “personal.” She added, “He drew lots of portraits of people, animals, creatures.”