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Ad Code: 4
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An example of work by Nell Baker Coover
Photo submitted by Lui Antal Deak
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Biography from AskART:
| | Born in Wooster, OH on Jan. 12, 1869. Coover studied in Paris with Delance, Callot, Waltner, and at Académie Delecluse in the 1890s. During 1908-14 she again lived in Paris. She then was active in Chicago until settling in Los Angeles in 1921. She also established a studio in Laguna Beach. Her specialties were dry point etchings and children subjects. Coover died in Los Angeles on Sept. 1, 1955. Member: Laguna Beach AA; Chicago Society of Etchers. Exh: AIC, 1898, 1903, 1915, 1916, 1918; PPIE, 1915; Artists Melting Pot (LA), 1927; Painters & Sculptors Club (LA), 1927; Palos Verdes Public Library, 1931; Laguna Beach Festival of Arts, 1937; Nat'l Print Show (Laguna Beach), 1945. In: Orange Co. (CA) Museum; L'Guignol (Paris); Calif. State Bldg (LA). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
American Art Annual 1898-33; Who's Who in American Art 1938-41; Artists of the American West (Doris Dawdy). | | 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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