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Emma Lampert Cooper, American 1855-1920. browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 1930: item # 942107
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| Oil on artist board, 11" x 14.5" and in the original frame, 13.5" x 16.5"--signed lower left and also signed verso and with title: "A Lane in Holland"--Emma L. Cooper was the wife of Colin Campbell Cooper. Biography from Ask Art: Born in Nunda, New York, Emma Lampert Cooper was known as a brilliant colorist of landscape painting. She studied at Wells College, Cooper Union Art School and the Art Students League with Agnes Abbatt and William Merritt Chase. She frequently painted in Europe and studied at the Academie Delecluse in Paris and with Jacob Kever in Holland. She also traveled throughout Canada and India. Cooper became head of the art department of Foster School in Clifton Springs, New York, and also taught at the Mechanic's Institute in Rochester. In 1897, she married artist Colin Campbell Cooper. She was active in the watercolor societies and exhibited widely. Cooper was a founder of the Rochester Art Club, in Rochester, NY, which also records her birth year as 1855. Source: Paul Sternberg, Sr., Art by American Women rochesterartclub.org Who Was Who in American Art, which records 1860 as her year of birth. | ||
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