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Jack Banham Coggins (July 10, 1911 – January 30, 2006) was an artist, author, and illustrator. He is known in the United States for his
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, which focused predominantly on marine subjects. He is also known for his books on space travel, which were both authored and illustrated by Coggins. Besides his own works, Coggins also provided illustrations for advertisements and magazine covers and articles. During World War II, he served as an artist and correspondent for '' YANK'' magazine, capturing and conveying wartime scenes from the front lines. Over the course of his career, Coggins produced more than 1,000 paintings and taught art classes for 45 years. He retired in May 2001 and died at his home in
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in January 2006.


Biography


Early life

Coggins was born in London, England on July 10, 1911, the only child of Ethel May (née Dobby) and Sydney George Coggins. Sydney Coggins was Regimental Corporal Major of the First Regiment of Life Guards, the part of the
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responsible for guarding the British Monarch; Jack Coggins was born in his father's barracks. During
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, Sydney Coggins served with, and was commissioned by the regiment. After the war, he was appointed regimental Riding Master, but he was retired when the 1st and 2nd Life Guards were amalgamated into a single regiment under the
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. A fellow officer, married to an American steel heiress, offered Sydney work as a secretary to his wife, and the Coggins family emigrated to
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, New York in 1923.


Education

While his father served with the Life Guards Regiment in France during World War I, Coggins and his mother lived with family in
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. He attended the
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, a public school preferred by army families. After moving to New York, Coggins enrolled at Roslyn High School in
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where he found difficulty in adjusting to the difference between military school in England and New York city public school. After graduation from Roslyn in 1928 at age 17, he enrolled in the New York City
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and studied under
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,
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, and Wayman Adams. In the early years, he painted advertising signs to support himself. With a grounding in fine art techniques, Coggins graduated to the
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, where he studied from 1933 to 1934 under noted artist
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.


Marriage and later life

While a member of the faculty of
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in New York, Coggins met Alma Wood, a fashion and photographic model. They married in 1948 and moved to Pike Township,
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,
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, where Coggins had purchased an old farm. Alma named their home "Crestfield," which, according to Jack, meant absolutely nothing. Coggins taught his wife to paint, and she had success as an artist in her own right under the name Alma Woods. The couple would hold annual joint exhibitions for many years. Alma Coggins assisted her husband in the planning, research and typing of many of his books, and he acknowledged her efforts with book dedications to her. He taught art classes at the
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Institute of the Arts from 1957 until 2001, despite being handicapped by the loss of his left eye due to infection after an operation. Coggins was a signature member and Master Pastelist of the Pastel Society of America, a Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists, a member of the American Ordnance Association, the
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, and an adviser to the boards of the
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and the
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. He died at his home in Berks County, Pennsylvania at the age of 94 and willed his body to medical science. Alma Wood-Coggins died March 4, 2007. Jack and Alma Coggins had no children and were survived by several nieces and nephews.


Illustrator, author and artist


Military illustrations of World War II

Coggins's interest in sailing and maritime subjects began in London when he would sail model yachts on Round Pond in Kensington Gardens. This interest developed into a lifelong passion during his teens when he sailed small craft on
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, near his new home on Long Island. During the early years of World War II, Coggins took a sampling of his war illustrations to Worthen Paxton, the art director of ''
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'', who commissioned Coggins to produce a drawing of an imaginary coastal invasion of England. Coggins was paid $250 for that work, a large sum at the time, which paid his rent for five months. Appearing on July 15, 1940, this was the first of many war time illustrations for ''LIFE''. Some of Coggins's works are in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection. During the early 1940s, Coggins obtained more work producing war pictures for other magazines, including a series of double-page spreads for the controversial newspaper '' PM'', and illustrations for ''
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''. Throughout the war years, most of the output of many large corporations was reserved for
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production; however, management were keen to promote their connection to the war effort and keep their name before the buying public until they could resume peacetime sales. Coggins received advertising commissions from such corporations including Elco,
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,
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, and Westinghouse. He also received commissions from the
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for aircraft recognition charts, and he was intrigued to later find these charts used during his army basic training. Because of the quality of his maritime illustrations, Coggins was invited by publisher Doubleday to provide artwork for a children's book about the U.S. Navy; the author being
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, the well known military historian. Coggins was invited to participate in Pratt's ''Naval Game'', based on a
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developed by
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involving dozens of tiny wooden ships, built on a scale of one inch to fifty feet. These were spread over the floor of Pratt's apartment and their maneuvers were calculated via a complex mathematical formula. The result of Pratt and Coggins's first collaboration, published in 1941, was ''Fighting Ships of the U.S. Navy'', a volume that described in text and illustrated in full color every class of ship in the Navy. Coggins was called up for Army service, and enlisted on April 8, 1943. He was pulled from basic training at Fort Eustis, Virginia before he could complete it to work as an illustrator for '' YANK'' magazine. He was originally introduced to the Commanding Officer and Editor of ''YANK'', Colonel Franklin Forsberg, by Fletcher Pratt. On May 20, 1943, Coggins commenced work at the head office of ''YANK'' in New York, where he worked until his departure for Britain. Jack Coggins became a naturalized citizen of the United States on August 19, 1943. He served as an artist for British ''YANK'' in London until August 2, 1945, and was discharged from the U.S. Army on November 3, 1945.Military Personnel Records, National Personnel Records Center, National Archives, St. Louis, Missouri. After serving as a Private for most of his time abroad, he finally made Corporal, and just before discharge, Sergeant. While in Britain, Coggins spent time on a
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convoy in the
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, witnessed the bombing of
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in a
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. He also spent time on a U.S.
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patrolling the beaches and made a trip into
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with an armored column. Events from all of these sorties were illustrated in ''YANK'' magazine in double page spreads. Coggins was "bugged" by the fact that the
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to which he had been assigned for the
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got to
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only on
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plus one. He saw lively action, but bemoaned missing the big show. During his time in Britain, Coggins also wrote articles on war rockets and the German Navy which were published in ''YANK''.


Science and science-fiction illustrations

During the late 1940s and early 1950s Coggins's marine art was featured on covers of Yachting Magazine and other publications, as well as on advertising material, and his science-fiction art illustrated covers for
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s. These included ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. Due to reduced interest in his pre-war work, Coggins applied for a position teaching watercolor at
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. He taught watercolor painting there from 1948 to 1952. In New York, as a result of his friendship with Fletcher Pratt, Coggins was introduced to the members of the
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, where he met
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and
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. Coggins was also invited to join Pratt's
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club, where he became closely associated with
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and
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. The contact with such visionary thinkers complemented his exposure to the German
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rockets in Europe and served to strengthen his growing interest in space travel, rockets, and science fiction. In 1951 and 1952, Coggins collaborated again with Fletcher Pratt on two classic books: ''Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles & Space Ships'', and ''By Space Ship to the Moon''. The books were released amidst the great wave of interest in space travel sweeping the United States and the rest of the world in the 1950s, and they were published in several countries and translated into other languages. These books made the prospect of
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seem a practical possibility.
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(NASA) scientists used the books to demonstrate their ideas to Congressmen when seeking funding for the space program, and there are many NASA scientists today who retain fond memories of the influence the books had on their careers.


Books

Between 1941 and 1983, Coggins wrote or illustrated 44 books on a wide range of marine, military, historical and educational themes. Among his more famous works is the 1962 authoring and illustration of ''Arms and Equipment of the Civil War''. Dale E. Biever, registrar at the Civil War Library and Museum in Philadelphia, described the work as "not about generals or battles but about the things one should know before delving into those areas ... a welcome addition to any Civil War library." It was republished several times, most recently in 2004. In 1966, Coggins wrote and illustrated ''The Horseman's Bible'', which sold over 500,000 copies with a revised edition published in 1984. In this book Coggins acknowledges his father "whose twenty five years in the cavalry and lifetime interest in horses made his advice invaluable." Coggins's last book was ''Marine Painter's Guide'', which was first published in 1983. After the book was published, he decided to stop writing to concentrate more on painting. A new edition of ''Marine Painter's Guide'' was published in 2005 by
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, the publisher of new editions for several of his books.


Other paintings and illustrations

In 1968, Coggins was invited to undertake part of a voyage on the
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vessel USC&GS Discoverer (OSS-02) from
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and commissioned to paint several images of the ship and crew. Harris B. Stewart was the chief scientist who commissioned and personally paid for the artwork, which remained his personal property; Stewart was the author of the cited report. Coggins relied on a realistic style that was executed in oils, for which he had a preference. However, he also painted works in water colors and other media. The majority of his paintings have a maritime theme, about which he wrote "It seems strange that with so much of the globe covered by water, so few artists know how to paint it." His stated preference in art styles was "a direct splashy type of realistic painting" and he admired the New Hope school of Redfield and Garber, with "no liking for '
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. A catalog listing well over 1000 works has been posthumously compiled by his relatives. A retrospective exhibition and sale of artworks found in Coggins's home after his death was held at the Wyomissing Institute of the Arts in late 2006. This consisted of about 300 previously unseen oils, watercolors, and other printed materials. An annual "Jack Coggins Award" to be given to a deserving local artist was financed from part of the proceeds from the sale of these works. , Coggins's paintings are owned by the
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, the
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of the
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, the
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, and the
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, among many other institutions, corporations, and private collectors. His original manuscripts and illustrations are part of
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's Permanent Collection of outstanding authors and artists.


Recognition

Coggins's work has been accepted for show by the
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, the
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, the American Artist Professional League, and the Pastel Society of America. Coggins received a number of awards and accolades during his career, including the American Revolution Round Table Award in 1969, the Daniel Boone National Foundation's Americanism Award in 1985, the Mystic Maritime Gallery's Purchase Award in 1989, the International Maritime Exhibition's Rudolph Shaeffer Award from 1987 to 1990, and Berks Art Council's Pagoda Award in 1995. In 2000, he was inducted to the
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Hall of Fame as a ''Living Legend'' and celebrated master of the genre of Space Art.


References


Further reading

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External links


Jack Coggins reference site and tribute
– created by his family – includes images of many of his works *
Jack Coggins
at Galenet
Jack Coggins
in ''
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