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Colin Campbell Cooper

Colin Campbell Cooper (1856 - 1937) was active/lived in California, Pennsylvania.  Colin Cooper is known for City buildings, street scene, floral and portrait painting, teaching.

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A resident and distinguished impressionist painter of both the East and West Coasts, Colin Campbell Cooper earned an international reputation with his depictions of landscapes, florals, portraits, gardens, interiors and figures.  He was especially noted for street scenes and skyscrapers of New York and Philadelphia, and his impressionist* palette was inspired by Childe Hassam, whom he met in New York beginning in the 1890s.

In the later part of his life, he focused on West Coast subject matter and espoused The California Style* of watercolor painting, a bold, aggressive new oil-painting look to a medium that had traditionally been used more modestly.

He was born in Philadelphia to an upper class family where the father was a surgeon, and he, the son, was encouraged by his educated family to pursue art.  He was also inspired by the art he saw at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition*.  He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy* of the Fine Arts with   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 14235 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Colin Campbell Cooper

   Publications  Book References:  83
Magazine References:  18

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18 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Colin Campbell Cooper
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist October 2006 Gerdts, William; Deborah Epstein Solon Yes
American Art Review Born of Fire August 2006 The Valley of Work Yes
Southwest Art By the Sea June 2004 Kolpas, Norman Yes
American Art Review The Golden Age of American Impressi December 2003 Gerdts, William H Yes
California Art Club Newsletter Remembering the 92nd Annual Gold Me April 2003 Merrell, Eric No
American Art Review Travels of American Impressionists August 2002 Solon, Deborah Epstein Yes
California Art Club Newsletter News Briefs June 2002 Editor, CAC Newsletter Yes
California Art Club Newsletter Travels of American Impressionists June 2002 Solon, Deborah Epstein No
American Art Review Colin Campbell Cooper: Impressions April 2002 Price, Marshall N Yes
California Art Club Newsletter The National Arts Club February 2002 Adams, Elaine No
American Art Review American Impressionists Abroad & October 2001 Weinberg, H Barbara Yes
American Art Review California Impressionists at Laguna August 2000 Becker, Jack Yes
American Art Review San Diego in the Eye of the Artist December 1999 Atkinson, D Scott Yes
Art & Auction The Way We Were May 1997 Berman, Ann Yes
American Art Review East Meets West: American Impressio April 1997 Coles, William Yes
American Art Review A Painter's Paradise (California) December 1996 Gerdts, William H Yes
American Art Review California Impressionists August 1996 Keyes, Donald D Yes
American Art Review A Noble Tradition June 1995 Lowrey, Carol Yes
83 Book References for Colin Campbell Cooper
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Santa Cruz Art League Statewide Art Exhibition Index, First through Twenty-Seventh, 1928-1957 (Publications in California Art, No. 12) 547 No
2015 Pollack, Deborah C. Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South 400 Yes
2009 Katlan, Alexander W. Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibition Records 1940-1951 and Water Color Exhibition Records 1900-1951 623 No
2006 Scott, Amy (Editor); Brian Bibby, William Deverell, et all Yosemite: Art of an American Icon
(Exhibition catalog)
221 Yes
2006 Solon, Deborah Epstein; William Gerdts East Coast/West Coast and Beyond: Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist 144 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2004 Pyle, Amy (Spanierman Gallery) Art for the New Collector III Re-Emerging American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
68 Yes
2003 Gerdts, William H (essay) The Golden Age of American Impressionism
(Exhibition catalog)
128 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
2002 McClelland, Gordon T; Jay T. Last California Watercolors 1850-1970, An Illustrated History & Biographical Dictionary 231 Yes
2002 Price, Marshall N Colin Campbell Cooper: Impressions of New York
(Exhibition catalog)
12 Yes
2002 Solon, Deborah Epstein In and Out of California: Travels of American Impressionists
(Exhibition catalog)
152 No
2001 Johnson, Ray (ed) Historic California Impressionism
(Exhibition catalog)
15 No
2001 Sellin, David; Mark Sullivan Thomas Eakins and His Fellow Artists at the Philadelphia Sketch Club
(Exhibition catalog)
52 Yes
2001 Weinberg, H Barbara; S Larkin American Impressionists Abroad And at Home 0 No
1999 Burns, Ric; James Sanders New York: An Illustrated History 0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Love, Richard H Carl W Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester 927 Yes
1999 Rehs, Howard (President) L.A. Art Show: Fine Art Dealer's Association
(Exhibition catalog)
96 Yes
1998 Gerdts, William; Will South California Impressionism 284 Yes
1998 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media 560 Yes
1998 Redfern, Ray Redfern Gallery: 1998
(Exhibition catalog)
73 Yes
1996 Landauer, Susan; Donald D. Keyes and Jean Stern California Impressionists
(Exhibition catalog)
103 Yes
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1995 Stern, Jean Romance of the Bells: The California Missions in Art
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
1994 Gerdts, William H Impressionist New York 224 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)
408 Yes
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1992 Gerdts, William H Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
282 Yes
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1992 Lublin, Mary American Selections 1850-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
163 Yes
1992 Stern, Jean; Janet Blake Doninik and Harvey L. Jones Selections from the Irvine Museum 128 Yes
1991 Weber, Bruce The Prowed Tower
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
1990 Danly, Susan Light, Air, and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from PAFA 91 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Halsby, Julian Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters 223 Yes
1990 Vincent, Stephen et al O California ! 19th & Early 20th Cen Landscapes 272 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Marling, Karal Ann Looking Back A Perspective on the 1913 Inaugural Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
55 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Stern, Jean; Morton Fleischer and Janet Dominik Masterworks of California Impressionism Morton H. Fleischer Collection 178 Yes
1986 Westphal, Ruth Lilly Plein Air Painters of California: The North 220 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Arts of the American Renaissance
(Exhibition catalog)
123 Yes
1985 McClelland, Gordon T; Jay Last The California Style Watercolor Artists 1925-1955 259 Yes
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1984 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Southern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary 291 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Hansen, James M Colin Camppbell Cooper
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
1981 Jones, Harvey L; John Caldwell; Terry St. John Impressionism, the California View
(Exhibition catalog)
104 Yes
1981 Kennedy Galleries A Kennedy Galleries Selection of American Art for Public and Private Collectors 81 Yes
1981 San Diego Museum of Art Catalogue of American Painting 240 Yes
1980 Burke, Doreen Bolger American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64 479 No
1979 Editor, Laguna Beach Museum Southern California Artists 1890-1940 216 Yes
1979 West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings 202 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1971 Lowe Art Museum French Impressionists Influence American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
96 Yes
1968 Petersen, Martin E Master Works from the Collection Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego
(Exhibition catalog)
70 Yes
1966 Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck History of Water Color in America 160 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1937 Caffin, Charles H The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America 396 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)
160 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1913 Editor Catalogue of the Forty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the American Water Color Society
(Exhibition catalog)
21 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)
281 No
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