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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Samarkand Garden, Santa Barbara, Cal
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  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 Lyme, Connecticut, and she painted with artist colony residents William Chadwick and Gertrude Nason.
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The following is from Richard RisCassi, West Hartford, Connecticut
Margaret Miller Cooper painted uninterrupted from the age of nine until her death in 1965. She was born in Terryville, Connecticut and graduated from Smith College in 1897. She attended the Art Students League of New York and Pratt Institute and continued her studies with Guy Wiggins, Charles Woodbury, Henry Snell, and Robert Brackman.
Her style was obviously influenced by the Impressionists, and her favorite subjects, rendered in high color, were Old Connecticut homesteads and farm scenes around her summer home in Lyme. She loved old trees, weathered farm houses, oxen and workhorses. In the winters, she frequently painted in Florida and depicted the brilliant colors of sea, sky, and figures. She also painted in Hawaii, Jamaica, Nassau, and Nova Scotia.
After her marriage to Elisha Cooper, she lived in New Britain and summered at Old Lyme, Connecticut. She was active in the National Association of Women Artists, the Connecticut Academy, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, the Lyme Art Association, Allied Artists, and the Palm Beach League of Artists. |
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Margaret Cooper is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Old Lyme Colony Painters
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