Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. (March 8, 1856 – November 6, 1937) was an

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painter, perhaps most renowned for his

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s, especially of

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s in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. An avid traveler, he was also known for his paintings of European and Asian landmarks, as well as natural landscapes, portraits, florals, and

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. In addition to being a painter, he was also a teacher and writer. His first wife,

Emma Lampert Cooper Emma Lampert Cooper (February 24, 1855 – July 30, 1920) was a painter from Rochester, New York, described as "a painter of exceptional ability". She studied in Rochester, New York; New York City under William Merritt Chase, Paris at the Acad ...

, was also a highly regarded painter.

Background and education

Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. was born in

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, on March 8, 1856, into a well-to-do family of

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heritage. He had four older and four younger siblings. His mother, Emily Williams Cooper, whose ancestor emigrated to the U.S. from Weymouth, England, was an amateur painter in watercolors. His father, Dr. Colin Campbell Cooper, whose grandfather came from

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, Ireland, was a surgeon and a lawyer with a great appreciation for the arts. Young Colin had been inspired by the art which he discovered when he attended the

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. Both of his parents were highly supportive of his ambitions, encouraging him to become an artist. In 1879, Cooper enrolled in the

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for three years. In 1886, he embarked on the first of his many travels to foreign lands, visiting the

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, and

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. Afterwards, his art education resumed at the

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from 1886 to 1890, with

Henri Lucien Doucet Henri Lucien Doucet (23 August 1856 – 31 December 1895) was a French figure and portrait painter and pastellist, born in Paris. Biography Doucet studied under Lefebvre and Boulanger, and in 1880 won the Prix de Rome. In 1888, he taught at A ...

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, and

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. He also studied at

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and

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. His work of this period consisted mostly of

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painted in a

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manner. He traveled extensively throughout his life, sketching and painting scenes of

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, and the

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and

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Life and work

Philadelphia and New York

Portrait of Emma Lampert Cooper by Colin Campbell Cooper

Back in Philadelphia, Cooper taught watercolor classes and architectural rendering at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now

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) from 1895 to 1898. Many of Cooper's paintings were destroyed in an 1896 fire at Philadelphia's Hazeltine Galleries; as a result, relatively little of his early work exists today. While at Drexel, he spent his summers abroad, primarily in the Dutch artists colony of Laren in

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and in

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. Among the other artists in Dordrecht at this time was renowned painter Emma Lampert (1855–1920) from

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. She and Cooper met, and were soon married, in Rochester on June 9, 1897. In 1898, the Coopers returned to Europe for a few years. During this period, as Cooper painted architectural landmarks, he developed the

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style which he used for the rest of his artistic career. Colin Campbell Cooper, Hudson River Waterfront, N

Cooper and his wife exhibited together in several two-person shows, including a May 1902 exhibit at the

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and a 1915 show at the

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in Rochester. They moved in 1904 to

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, where he would remain, other than his many travels, until 1921. Here he continued work, which he had begun about two years earlier in Philadelphia, on his famous

paintings. Cooper said that he was "greatly interested in the skyscraper buildings in Broad Street. It was intensely interesting to watch the freakishness disappear from those queer towering structures in the glory of the right kind of light". He said that the painting which first brought him great success was 1902's ''Broad Street, New York''; in 1903, this painting was honored with the W. T. Evans Award of the

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. In another interview, he had stated that "one of the points that most strikes me about this view up Broad Street is the dramatic contrast between the old, low type of buildings ... and the great skyscrapers. My pictures are built on these contrasts." In 1911, ''

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'', citing Cooper as the artist who best captured modern, towering structures on canvas, declared him to be "the skyscraper artist par excellence of America". In an article the following year, they stated that he was "one of the most interesting figures in American art", reiterating that "in his particular field he has no superior". In addition to New York City, his paintings often depict skyscrapers in Philadelphia and Chicago. Colin Campbell Cooper, Rescue of the Survivors of the Titanic by the Carpathia

Colin Campbell Cooper, Rescue of the Survivors of the Titanic by the Carpathia

Cooper's painting ''Fifth Avenue, New York'' was purchased by the French government for the

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. Such an honor was quite rare for an American artist. Critics at the time, and up to the present, frequently compared the works of Cooper and

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. They have often been credited as being the two most iconic artists whose paintings began a trend of celebrating the wonders of the modern city, especially New York City. Cooper may have intentionally avoided certain subjects in order to differentiate himself from Hassam. Hassam, unlike Cooper, did not concentrate on the tall buildings in his

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s. Cooper was as proficient painting in

as he was in

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s. He would often create a small watercolor study before painting a larger work of the same subject in oils. But the smaller watercolors were not mere sketches for his own use; they were finished pieces which he exhibited, sometimes years earlier than the larger corresponding oil paintings that he would ultimately produce. Cooper was elected to a prestigious membership in the

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in 1912 (he had previously been elected an Associate, four years earlier). Colin Campbell Cooper - Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco

He and his wife were aboard the RMS ''Carpathia'' during its rescue mission for the survivors from the sunken RMS ''Titanic'' on April 15, 1912. He assisted in the effort, and during the rescue operation, he created several paintings which document the events. The Coopers gave up their ship's cabin so some of the survivors would have berths to sleep in. Cooper exhibited in

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of 1915, winning the gold medal for oil and the silver medal for watercolor. While there, he created a series of paintings depicting the exposition's buildings, including the

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. He also participated in the

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in 1916. The Coopers spent the winter of 1915–16 in

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. This time in southern California was undoubtedly a key factor in Cooper's later decision to move there permanently. His wife Emma died of

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on July 30, 1920.

Santa Barbara

After his wife's death, Cooper moved to

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in January 1921. Santa Barbara would be his home base for the rest of his life, spending two years in northern Europe and Tunisia. He became

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of Painting at the Santa Barbara Community School of Arts. Terrace at Samarkand Hotel

Cooper said of his new environment: "I find Santa Barbara so conducive to the sort of things a painter most craves – climate, flowers, mountains, seascapes, etc. – with a community interest in all sorts of artistic matters that I am compensated, to a degree, for the isolation from that artistic universe of America." But he hadn't abandoned that "artistic universe of America", New York City, as he continued to maintain a studio there for ten years after his move to California. Another aspect of his creativity became evident starting in the mid-1920s, as, perhaps influenced by his father's great love of literature, he began writing plays and books. His plays found their way in the 1920s and 1930 to theater companies in places such as

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, Redlands, and Santa Fe, and were also produced at a theater which he founded in Santa Barbara, called The Strollers. In addition to the plays, he also wrote novels, illustrated books, and an autobiography entitled ''In These Old Days''. In April 1927, he married his second wife, Marie Henriette Frehsee, in Arizona. Cooper continued to enjoy traveling, and kept painting until prevented from doing so by failing eyesight in his last years. He died in Santa Barbara on November 6, 1937, at the age of 81. He is interred at

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, Pennsylvania. In 1938 Santa Barbara's Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery paid tribute to Cooper's legacy by presenting a memorial exhibition of his work. Just several months before his death, however, Cooper initiated the effort to convert the abandoned post office building into an art museum in a letter to the editor of the ''Santa Barbara News-Press'' in July 1937. Just four years later that pipedream materialized into the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

Colin Campbell Cooper, Pergola at Samarkand

Selected solo exhibitions

* 1924-1925 Fine Arts Gallery,

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* 1925 Stendahl Art Galleries (Los Angeles, CA) * 1927 Ainslie Galleries (Los Angeles, CA) * 1927

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(Los Angeles, CA) * 1934 Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery (Santa Barbara, CA) * 1938 ''Memorial Exhibition'', Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery (Santa Barbara, CA) * 1981 ''An Exhibition of Paintings by Colin Campbell Cooper'', James M. Hansen, (Santa Barbara, CA) * 2002 ''Colin Campbell Cooper: Impressions of New York'', Santa Barbara Museum of Art * 2003: Sullivan Goss Gallery (Santa Barbara, CA) * 2006 ''East Coast/West Coast and Beyond: Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist'',

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; originated at

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(Huntington, New York), traveled to

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(Laguna Beach, CA) in 2007. * 201
Santa Barbara Historical Museum
(Santa Barbara, CA) * 201
"Landmark", Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery
(Santa Barbara, CA)

Selected group exhibitions

* 1895, 1897, 1899, 1901–16, 1919, 1920

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* 1901–03, 1907, 1908, 1912 Carnegie Institute Museum of Art (Pittsburgh) * 1902 Galleries of the ART Club (New York) * 1903 Klackner Galleries (New York) * 1907, 1909, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1920

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(Washington, D.C.) * 1907–10, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1919, 1922 City Art Museum of St. Louis * 1912 The Macdowell Club of New York * 1915 Arlington Art Galleries (New York) * 1915 Macbeth Gallery (New York) * 1916 O'Brien Gallery (Chicago) * 1916

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* 1924 Casa de la Guerra (Santa Barbara) * 1927 Biltmore Galleries (Santa Barbara) * 1929 Jules Kievits Fine Art (Pasadena) * 1930

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* 1930, 1931 New York Society of Painters * 1930, 1931, 1941 County National Bank and Trust (Santa Barbara) * 1932 National Arts Club (New York) * 1933 Ebell Salon of Art (Los Angeles) * 1939, 1941, 1944, 1951 Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Collections

Cooper's work is in many prominent collections, including: *

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(Allentown, Pennsylvania) * Berman Museum of Art,

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(Collegeville, Pennsylvania) *

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(Sacramento, California) *

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* Fleischer Museum (Scottsdale, Arizona) * Irvine Museum (Irvine, California) *

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(Jersey City, New Jersey) *

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, (Coral Gables, Florida) *

(Rochester, New York) *

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(New York City) *

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(Montclair, New Jersey) *

(Paris, France) * Musée National de la Cooperation Franco-Americaine (Blerancourt, France) * Museum of the

(New York City) *

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(New York, NY) *

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(Washington, DC) *

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(Jackson Hole, Wyoming) *

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(New Britain, Connecticut) *

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(West Palm Beach, Florida) *

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(Oakland, CA) *

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(Ancien National D'art Moderne) (Paris, France) * Payne Gallery,

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(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) *

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(Reading, Pennsylvania) * Saint Louis Museum of Fine Arts * San Antonio Art League Museum *

* Santa Barbara Museum of Art * Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art (Dover, Delaware) *

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(Ann Arbor, Michigan) *

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(Greensburg, Pennsylvania) *

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(Washington, D.C.)

Gallery

File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Spanish Garden.jpg, ''Spanish Garden'', c. 1890s–1910s File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Stairway of Francis I at Blois.jpg, ''Stairway of Francis I at Blois'', 1900 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Adam and Eve Inn, Lincoln, England.jpg, ''Adam and Eve Inn, Lincoln, England'', 1902 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Fifth Avenue, New York City.jpg, ''Fifth Avenue, New York City'', 1906 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Main Street Bridge, Rochester.jpg, ''Main Street Bridge, Rochester'', 1908 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Broadway from the Post Office (Wall Street).jpg, ''Broadway from the Post Office (Wall Street)'', c. 1909 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Metropolitan Life Tower.jpg, ''Metropolitan Life Tower'', 1910 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Polar Bear (1912).jpg, ''Polar Bear'', 1912 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Rooftops at Sunset.jpg, ''Rooftops at Sunset'', 1912 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, St. Philips Church, Charleston.jpg, ''St. Philips Church, Charleston'', c. 1913 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Taj Mahal, Afternoon.jpg, ''Taj Mahal, Afternoon'', 1913 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, At Edgartown, Martha's Vinyard.jpg, ''At Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard'', 1915 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Hunter College, New York City.jpg, ''Hunter College, New York City'', c. 1915 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Fortune Teller.jpg, ''Fortune Teller'', 1921 File:WLA nyhistorical Cooper Chambers Street and the Municipal Building.jpg, ''Chambers Street and the Municipal Building, N.Y.C.'', 1922 File:Colin Campbell Cooper, Self-Portrait.jpg, ''Self-Portrait'', c. 1922

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