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| | Born in Norwich, CT on Nov. 29, 1787. Coit arrived in California with the Gold Rush of 1849. His drawings of San Francisco are some of the earliest extant. Coit was elected to the Nat'l Academy before his death in Norwich, CT on July 18, 1876. In: Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America (Groce, George C. and David H. Wallace); Daniel Wadsworth Coit, An Artist in El Dorado (Grabhorn Press, 1937). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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