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Elizabeth R. Coffin
Charlotte B. Coman
Anna Botsford Comstock
Lucy S. Conant
Emma Lampert Cooper
Louise King Cox
Caroline Amelia Cranch
Elizabeth Rebecca (Bishra) Coffin
(1850-1930)
Seaweed
Gatherers 1889--oil
representative work.
Hanging the Net (image unavailable) c.
1892--oil
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Born in New York to Quaker parents, Elizabeth Coffin was the eighth generation of Coffins to live on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. The first person in the U.S. to earn a Master's degree (Vassar College, 1876), she worked with artists like Thomas Eakins and William Merritt Chase in Philadelphia and New York and was one of the first women to attend the Hague Royal Academy. She also traveled to places like Africa, but always returned to her home base in Nantucket. In 1892 her painting Hanging the Net (see above) earned the "best picture painted in the United States by a woman" award from the National Academy of Design in New York City.Biography/1 image--click on "biography" and on "Examples of her Work."
3 images--scroll down the page.
Charlotte (Buell) Coman
(1833-1924)
Washing
Clothes in Picardy--representative work
Chickens
in Farm Scene--representative work.
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Early Summer
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Quaker
Hill 1900-- |
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Still
Life of Meat with Vegetables 1911--
representative work
Barbizan Painting--representative work
A House
on the Lake--representative work
A Stony Brook
and The Road to Town, Florida
c. 1892 (images unavailable)--two oils
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Charlotte B. Coman was born in New York and became a housewife in a frontier town in Iowa. Widowed, she decided at age 40 to become an artist. Coman studied art with J. R. Brevoort in America and with Harry Thompson and Emile Vernier in Paris, coming under the influence of the Barbizon tradition (plein-air painting, bucolic subjects, realist style). She always signed her paintings as C.B. Coman to avoid discrimination by male jurors. Many of her best paintings exhibit a misty, tonalist effect suggesting spirituality.Biography/4 images --click on "Examples of her Work" and on "Biography."
Clearing Off
Ducks on a Pond
Landscape [title unknown]
Several images
Biography/Landscape
Anna Botsford Comstock
(1854 - 1930)
Illustration from
Manual for the Study of
Insects
--representative wood engraving
Exhibited the following prints of wood engravings
in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition:
Tropical Moth
Moths
Moths
A Moth
Cherry Blossoms & Moths
Rendezvous by Moonlight
Anna Botsford Comstock was born in New York and attended Cornell University where she met and married her entomologist-faculty husband John Comstock whose insect books were illustrated by Anna. The two formed a publishing company specializing in nature-study books, and her 900-page Handbook of Nature Study (1911) became a standard textbook for teachers, going through 24 editions and being translated into eight languages. For her extensive work in the nature-study movement, Comstock was recognized as one of America's twelve greatest living women in the League of Women Voters 1923 survey.
Lucy Scarborough Conant (1867-1921)
Italian Landscape --
representative work.
 The
Shores of Etretat--representative work |
Coastal Landscape--representative
work |
The Orchid Meadow (oil) and Nasturtiums (watercolor)
(images
unavailable)--exhibited in
the Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Lucy S. Conant was born in Connecticut and studied art in Boston and Paris. Exhibiting in Boston in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, she later taught at the University of California, Berkeley.3 images--click on "Gallery" and "Examples of her Work."
Several images
Emma (Esther) Lampert Cooper (1860-1920)
Morning on the Steps--representative
work
The Breadwinner--exhibited
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Weaving Homespun, Canada-- |
Two oils--Behind the Dunes (misty
Dutch landscape) and
A Hillside in Picardy
c. 1887--and one watercolor--
Through the Meadows in Holland--(images
unavailable)
exhibited in the Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Emma Lampert Cooper was born in New York where she began her art studies at Cooper Union and the Art Students League in New York. After studying in Paris with Harry Thompson and in the Netherlands, she became head of the art department at Foster School in Clifton Springs, New York, and also taught for a time at the Mechanic's Institute in Rochester. Exhibiting under the name "Lampert" in 1893, she later married California artist Colin Campbell Cooper. She won a medal at the 1893 Exposition.Biography
San Diego Exposition--1916
Several images
Biography/17 images--click on "Examples of Works" and "Biography."
A Dutch Cavelier
Brittany Village with Stream
Louise Howland (King) Cox (1865-1945)
Woman
Holding Flowers (1893)--
representative work
The Rose
1898-- |
Angiola-- |
May Flowers
1911 (oil)-- |
Daylilies and Iris--representative
work |
Suggestion for
Reredos--exhibited in the
Women's Building, 1893 Exposition.
A
Rondel (Primavera); large B&W here (scroll down the page) 1892--
oil exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
The Lotos Eaters c. 1887 (image unavailable)--
oil exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Louise Howland Cox was born in San Francisco and studied art at the National Academy of Design with her future husband Kenyon Cox, as well as at the Art Students League in New York. Cox and her husband created the murals decorating the Liberal Arts Building at the 1893 Exposition and were part of the Cornish Art Colony in New Hampshire. Her son Allyn Cox also became a mural painter.Biography/1 image --click on "biography"
Seated Young Girl 1903
Young Man with Lute 1903
Caroline Amelia Cranch
(1853-1931)
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John
Knowles Paine--representative work
Portrait
of Mr. Christopher Cranch c. 1883
and Portrait of Mrs. E. D. Cranch--exhibited
in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
Born in New York, Caroline A. Cranch studied art in Boston with her father (Christopher Pearse Cranch, the transcendentalist writer and Hudson River Valley painter) and William Hunt in New York at the Arts Students League and in Paris. No more information is available online.
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