A painter of landscapes, especially of Connecticut, Margaret Cooper studied at the National Academy of Design and the Pratt Institute in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
She also studied privately with Henry Snell, Guy Wiggins, Dwight Tryon, Charles Woodbury, and Robert Brackman. Her husband was Elisha Cooper, wealthy businessman, and they traveled widely, which she reflected in her paintings.
In 1935, they bought a large Victorian home near Lym (showing 500 of 1827 characters). |
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Old Lyme Colony Painters
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