Information from a Holland Sentinel article stated; Bruce McCombs retired from Hope College in 2021 after more than 50 years teaching art.
McCombs, a Cleveland native, holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA from Tulane University. He started at Hope College in 1969. Over his five decades there, he taught courses in drawing, watercolor painting, printmaking and photography.
Early in his career, McCombs focused on etching and printmaking. In the 1990s, he transitioned to photorealistic watercolors.
At the time of his retirement from Hope, McCombs had works in the permanent collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art — among others.