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Fern Isabel Coppedge 1883-1951 : one woman's struggle for equality in the art world / Les & Sue Fox.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection ND237.C692 A4 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, Les, 1947- author.
- Fox, Sue, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coppedge, Fern Isabel, 1883-1951.
- Coppedge, Fern Isabel.
- Painters--United States--Biography.
- Painters.
- Women painters.
- United States.
- Women painters--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 260 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical table ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Midland Park, New Jersey : West Highland Publishing LLC, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Comprehensive biography and official Catalogue Raisonne of the American artist Fern Isabel Coppedge (1883-1951). Includes 400 paintings with complete provenance and 1,000 illustrations. Researched with the help of the artist's family, the Kuns / Coppedge family. This book expands on the 1990 exhibition catalog published by the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA. Foreword by Michele Strickler, author of the essay "Fern Coppedge: A Forgotten Woman" in the 1990 Michener catalog. An extensive list of Acknowledgments includes art museums, libraries, art schools and public institutions, art auction houses and expert art dealers"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Michele Pavone Stricker
- Meet Fern I. Coppedge : an American original
- Family tree/biographies
- The early years (1883-1920)
- Pennsylvania through the eyes of Fern Coppedge (1920-1951)
- Summers in Gloucester (1916-1934)
- Fern Coppedge and the New Hope School
- The Philadelphia Ten (1917-1945)
- When Fern met Robert
- Women in art
- The James A. Michener Art Museum and other museums and institutions
- Joseph Barrett : the artist who loved Fern Coppedge
- Timeline (1883-1951)
- A time machine visit with the artist (1933)
- Acknowledgments
- Catalogue raisonne : volume 1 (parts 1, 2 and 3).
- Notes:
- "Five o'clock train, collection of Thomas and Karen Buckley."
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kowell Family Art History Fund.
- Contains:
- Coppedge, Fern Isabel, 1883-1951. Works. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 9780999346068
- 0999346067
- OCLC:
- 1291320336
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