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Colin Campbell Cooper:
An American Impressionist
Title: The Wall Street Ferry Slip (The Ferries, New York), 1907
Artist: Colin Campbell Cooper (American 1858-1937)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 34 x 50 inches
Collection of Greg and Sharon Roberts
Image Courtesy: Laguna Art Museum
East Coast/West Coast and Beyond:
Colin Campbell Cooper
An American Impressionist
Heckscher Museum of Art
November 14, 2006 - January 28, 2007
East Coast/ West Coast and Beyond: Colin Campbell Cooper,
American Impressionist is a retrospective of the artist's work. It exemplifies the artist’s
virtuosity with various subjects such as the American Skyscraper, American coasts, European architectural monuments,
the Taj Mahal, figural works, and Yosemite landscapes.
Title: Taj Mahal, Afternoon, c. 1913
Artist: Colin Campbell Cooper (American 1858-1937)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 29 x 36 inches
Private Collection
Photograph courtesy of Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery
Image Courtesy: Laguna Art Museum
Philadelphia native Colin Campbell Cooper was the son of a prominent surgeon. His parents encouraged his creativity. Cooper studied with Thomas Eakins
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Later he studied in France and throughout his life was known to travel widely. In 1902, with his wife, he relocated
to New York City and began to paint what was then a new facet of architecture, the skyscraper. Cooper was a passenger on the Carpathia when it was called to help the
passengers who had fled the sinking Titanic.
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Title: Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Burma, 1915
Artist: Colin Campbell Cooper (American 1858-1937)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 40 1/2 x 27 3/4 inches
Courtesy Edenhurst Gallery, Los Angeles and Palm Desert
Image Courtesy: Laguna Art Museum
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Colin Campbell Cooper focused first on the East and later on the American West
Coast thus providing his vision of these two magnificent yet
different landscapes.
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Title: Panama-Pacific Exposition, c. 1916
Artist: Colin Campbell Cooper (American 1858-1937)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 19 x 22 inches
Private Collection, Courtesy of The Irvine Museum, Irvine, California
Image Courtesy: Laguna Art Museum
Colin Campbell Cooper’s career is best defined by two distinct periods. First his education and
development as an East Coast artist, secondly his relocation to the West Coast.
Regardless of the subject matter Cooper was a significant artist known to capture the spirit of his surroundings.
Title: Chatham Square Station, New York City, 1919
Artist: Colin Campbell Cooper (American 1858-1937)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 50 inches
Guillaume Family Collection
Image Courtesy: Laguna Art Museum
The Laguna Art Museum organized East Coast/West Coast and Beyond: Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist.
East Coast/West Coast and Beyond:
Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist
Heckscher Museum of Art:
November 14, 2006 - January 28, 2007
Laguna Art Museum:
February 25, 2007 - June 3, 2007
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