East Coast/West Coast, and beyond; Colin Campbell Cooper, American impressionist

Reference & Research Book News, Feb, 2007

East Coast/West Coast, and beyond; Colin Campbell Cooper, American impressionist.

Gerdts, William H. and Deborah Epstein Solon.

Hudson Hills Press

2006

143 pages

$50.00

Hardcover

ND237

The span of Cooper's output, which ranges from optimistic paintings of New York's financial district at the turn of the 20th century to paintings of a more natural world in California in the 1920s, allows the curators of this exhibition to focus equally on East Coast and West Coast subject matter. Gerdts (art history, CUNY, emeritus) provides a comprehensive essay on Cooper's contribution to art on the East Coast, while Solon (independent curator) writes about Cooper's work in California. The "and beyond" portion of his works includes some large-scale paintings from his travels in Europe, such as the impressive Greco-Roman Theater at Night, Taormina, Sicily. The catalog has 79 color reproductions of Cooper's paintings, including some which have never been published.

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