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William Haskell Coffin

William Haskell Coffin (1877 - 1941) was active/lived in New York, Florida, South Carolina.  William Coffin is known for Female figure magazine illustration, fine art painting, commercial art.

William Henry "Haskell" Coffin (1878–1941) was a painter and commercial artist who flourished in the early decades of the twentieth century. His work appeared on the cover of leading magazines in the United States and on posters that the US government commissioned.
Coffin was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on October 21, 1878, the son of Julia (Haskell) and George Mathewes Coffin. When he was young, his family moved to Washington, DC, where he attended the Corcoran School of Art. After a brief stint back in Charleston, where he painted portraits of society ladies, he went to France in 1902 to complete his training as an artist,
Coffin specialized in images of women, which were reproduced on the covers of popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, The American Magazine, Redbook, McCall's, Leslie's Illustrated, and the Pictorial Review. He was one of the most highly paid illustrators of his era.
Coffin was married twice. His second wife was ac   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1560 characters.]  Artist bio

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9 Book References for William Haskell Coffin
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 McMahan, Virgil E The Artists of Washington DC 1796-1996 240 No
1995 Cohn, Jan Covers of the Saturday Evening Post Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration 298 Yes
1988 Rawls, Walton Wake Up, America World War I and the American Poster 288 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1979 Crawford, Anthony R Posters/World War l & World War ll George C Marshall Research Foundation 128 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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