Colin Campbell Cooper

Collections (a selected list):
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
Crocker Museum, Sacramento, California
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (Dallas Art Association purchase)
Irvine Museum, Irvine, California
Luxembourg Collection, Paris, France
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
National Arts Club, New York, New York
New York Historical Society, New York, New York
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
City of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The White House, Washington, D.C.

Exhibitions (a selected list):
(1924-1925) Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
(1925) Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, California
(1927) Ainslie Galleries, Los Angeles, California
(1927) Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles, California
(1934) Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
(1938) Memorial Exhibition at the Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

Publications:
Ackerman, Gerald M. American Orientalists. Paris: ACR Edition, 1994.

Cooper, Colin Campbell. Letter to the Editor "Urges Old Postoffice as Art Museum," typescript reported as copied from Santa Barbara News-Press, Sunday ed., July 25, 1937, vol. LXXIV, no. 266, part 1, p. 3, col. 2. In artist files at the library of Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Calif.

Gerdts, William. Impressionist New York. New York: Artabras/Abbeville Press, 1994.

Goolsby, Tina. "Colin Campbell Cooper: An American Impressionist with a Global Perspective." in Art & Antiques," Jan 1983.

Hansen, James M. An exhibition of paintings by Colin Campbell Cooper, May 3-16, 1981. Santa Barbara, Calif.: James M. Hansen, 1981.

Hughes, Edan Milton. Artists in California. Third ed. Sacramento, Calif.: Crocker Art Museum, 2002.

Laguna Beach Art Museum. Southern California Artists 1890-1940. July 10, 1979 to August 28, 1979. Laguna Beach, Calif.: Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 1979.

Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall. California Art: 450 Years of Painting and Other Media. Los Angeles: Dustin Publications, 1998.

Price, Marshall N. "Colin Campbell Cooper: Impressions of New York," catalogue essay for the exhibition of the same name. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2002.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art Library. Colin Campbell Cooper artist files. Santa Barbara, Calif.

Solon, Deborah Epstein. In and Out of California: Travels of American Impressionists. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2002.

Stern, Jean. American Impressionism, California School. Scottsdale, AZ: Fleischer Museum / FFCA Publishing, 1989.

Westphal, Ruth Lilly [editor]. Plein Air Painters of California: The North. Irvine, Calif: Westphal Publishing, 1986.

Education:
(1879) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; studied under Thomas Eakins
(1889) Academie Julian
Academie Decluse
Academie Viti

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