From 1961 to 1994, Coughlin was Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Major institutions that own examples of Coughlin’s original graphic art include the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Boston Public Library, Columbia University, the New University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and the Staedelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfort, Germany. His art has also been the subject of one man shows in Boston, Dublin, Ireland, and Florence, Italy. Recently (2004) Coughlin’s art was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts.