biografía de Elizabeth Rebecca COFFIN (c.1851-1930)

Lugar de nacimiento: Brooklyn, NY

Lugar de defunción: Nantucket, MA

Direcciones: Brooklyn, NY/Nantucket

Profesión: Portrait and genre painter

Estudios: Vassar College, 1870; Hague Acad. FA, Holland, 1872-75; privately with J.P. Koelman, the Hague; ASL with W.M. Chase and W. Shirlaw, 1877-80, 1888-89; Brooklyn AA, early 1880s; PAFA with Eakins, 1883

Exposiciones: NAD, 1876-1892 (Dodge prize), 1893-94; Brooklyn AA, 1877, 1884, 1912; Worlds Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893; Vassar College, 1920 (retrospective); K. Taylor Gal, Nantucket, 1945 (memorial)

Asociaciones: Brooklyn Artists Gld.

Obra: Nantucket Hist. Assoc.; Vassar College

Comentarios: Painted scenes of Algeria, the Nile, and Nantucket. A descendant of Tristram Coffin, one of the earliest settlers of Nantucket. During the mid 1870s, she traveled through Europe, including Florence and Venice. She was a friend of Eakin"s wife, Susan MacDowell. as a trustee of the Coffin Sch., Nantucket, she organized exhibitions for contemporary island artists. Teacher: Brooklyn AA, 1895-96 (perspective).

Fuentes: add"l info. courtesy Nantucket Hist. Assoc.