Emma Lampert Cooper

Portrait of Emma Lampert Cooper painted around 1897 by her husband Colin Campbell Cooper

Emma Esther Lampert Cooper (born February 24, 1855 in Nunda , New York , † July 30, 1920 in Pittsford , New York) was an American painter, art teacher and art director . Her husband was the painter Colin Campbell Cooper .

Early years

Emma Esther Lampert was born in 1855 to Jenette, nee Smith, and Henry Lampert in Nunda, Livingston County . Her father immigrated to the United States from the Kingdom of Hanover . At the time of her birth, he was working as a tanner. Two other German tanners and a servant lived with the family in the same house. Emma had an older sister named Mary, two younger sisters named Carrie and Adella, and a younger brother named Henry. The family moved to Rochester ( Monroe County ), where her father in 1870 worked as a leather wholesaler. During the civil war , he was drafted into military service in June 1863. He died on June 10, 1880.

Artist career

education

Emma Lampert Cooper in her studio (around 1900)

Cooper graduated from Wells College in Aurora, New York, in 1875 . She was a founding member of the Eastern Association of Wells College.

The Rochester Art Club was founded in 1877 and she became its first vice president. She also served as Secretary and President over the years. She was a member of the club until 1895. Between 1870 and 1886 she had a studio in the historic Powers Building in Rochester. During her time in Rochester, she made "a notable influence" on the city's art community.

She moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League of New York and the Cooper Union . One of their lecturers was William Merritt Chase . Cooper studied for 18 months in Paris at the Académie Delécluse in the mid-1880s and in 1891 under Hein Kever in the Netherlands .

Teaching

She was art director at the Foster School in Clifton Springs, New York, which was open between 1876 and 1885. From 1893 to 1897 she taught art at the Mechanics Institute (now the Rochester Institute of Technology ).

marriage

Colin Campbell Cooper (around 1905)

During her stay in Dordrecht in 1897, while living and working there, she met the painter Colin Campbell Cooper. The couple married on June 9, 1897 in Rochester, New York. Between 1898 and 1902 the couple traveled abroad. They lived in the artist colony in Laren (Netherlands) for a year . The couple eventually settled in New York City but traveled extensively to Europe and their hometown of Rochester. You were in British India in 1913 . Both are said to have been commissioned by a patron in the United States to make paintings there. The works from this trip were then exhibited in Rochester in 1915. Because of her work in the United States and abroad, she was well respected in the international art scene.

Works of art and exhibitions

In her works she mainly dealt with still lifes and landscapes from her travels. She closed her studio in Rochester in 1886 and then traveled to Paris. In 1887 she exhibited her work Hillside at Picardy at the Salon de Paris . For her paintings Breadwinner she was an award in 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago ( Illinois awarded) and in 1895 an award at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta ( Georgia ). Her works were exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 . In 1902, she received a gold medal at the American Art Society Exhibition in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania ). She put 1,904 oil and watercolor paintings at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis ( Missouri ) and won two bronze medals, one of them for their work Weaving Homespun. Cooper's paintings were exhibited with those of her husband between 1902 and 1910 in Rochester, Chicago, New York City and Philadelphia, and Buffalo. In 1915 she exhibited her works from British India together with the works of Alice Schille , Adelaide Deming and Helen Watson Phelps in New York City.

Cooper became an artist during the second half of the 19th century, when a significant number of women became successful, well-trained artists, a rarity before that time with a few exceptions such as Angelika Kauffmann and Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun . The emerging artists created works with a different perspective than men, which challenged their limited imagination of femininity and created a genre of flowery-female landscapes in which “ the artist placed one woman or more in a flower garden setting and manipulated composition, color, texture and form to make the women look as much like flowers as possible. “They were among the educated, intellectual new women of the late 19th century, whose influence was largely ignored by art scholars.

Cooper was one of the well-trained artists who matured into a successful landscape painter and academic. At the beginning, however, like others, she had to work as a children's book illustrator and painter of miniatures and flower pictures. With the realization of this stony path in the transition to a successful artist, especially of landscape and portrait paintings, she warned other artists who were striving for this path. However, she was able to overcome the obstacles on her way and eventually became a successful landscape painter.

She was a member of the Women's International Art Club in London , the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Women's Art Association of Canada . In New York City, she was a member of the Woman's Art Club of New York , the National Arts Club, and the New York Watercolor Club . She was a founding member of the Rochester Art Club and the Philadelphia Water Color Club .

Art collections

The paintings by Cooper are now part of private and public art collections, including the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester , the Strong Museum in Rochester (New York), the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro ( North Carolina ) and the Wells College in Aurora (New York).

RMS Carpathia

Rescue of the Survivors of the Titanic by the Carpathia in the Midwest Museum of Art , painted by Colin Campbell Cooper in 1912

The couple were among the first-class passengers on board the RMS Carpathia of the British Cunard Line on the way from New York City to Gibraltar in April 1912 , when it picked up the survivors of the sunken Titanic . They helped rescue the survivors. In this context, they shared their cabin and took care of the survivor Irene Harris, the wife of the theater producer and manager Henry Harris , who had died in the sinking. Colin Campbell then painted several paintings of the RMS Titanic.

death

She died in 1920 at her sister, Mrs. John Steele's home in Pittsford, New York, and was then buried in Mount Hope Cemetery , Rochester, New York.

In January 1940, a retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the George H. Brodhead Fine Arts in Rochester. Her and her husband's records are now part of the manuscript collection of the River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester.

Works (selection)

Europe and North America

• A Corner in the Studio (oil painting), between 1882 and 1897
• A Corner in the Studio (oil painting), between 1882 and 1897
• A Dutch Cavalier (watercolor), Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
• Adobe House (oil painting), c. 1900, private collection
• At Old Mill, Holland (watercolor), between 1897 and 1917
• At Colorado Springs, Colorado (oil painting), Cragmoor Free Library, New York
• Bee Hives in a French Garden (drawing), 1888, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
• Behind the dunes
• Brittany Farmyard (oil painting), between 1882 and 1897
• Canal in Holland (watercolor), between 1885 and 1897
• Cape Cod Vista (oil painting), Memorial Art Museum, University of Rochester
• Courtyard (oil painting), private collection
• Crooked Houses (oil painting), between 1897 and 1910
• Dutch Interior (oil painting), between 1882 and 1897
• Geranium (oil painting)
• Gray Day (oil painting), between 1882 and 1897
• Gray Day, Mystic, Connecticut (oil painting), between 1882 and 1897
• Hillside in Picardy
• Landscape, Autumn (watercolor), between 1897 and 1920
• Landscape, France (oil painting), between 1882 and 1897
• Life Work (oil painting), interior work scene, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
• Little Shop (oil painting), around 1900
• Little Shop, Holland (oil painting), Cragmoore Free Library in Cragsmoore (New York)
• Morning Near Riverdale (oil painting), c. 1885, Wells College, Aurora, New York
• New England Vista (oil painting), Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
• Old Well, Pittfield, New York (watercolor), between 1885 and 1897, Strong Museum, One Manhattan Square, Rochester (New York)
• On a French River , Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
• Rose Covered Verandah (oil painting), between 1897 and 1920
• Roses (oil painting), Lagakos-Turak Gallery, Philadelphia
• San Diego Exposition 1916 (oil painting), interior scene, private collection
• Side Door of a Manor House, Touraine (oil painting), between 1897 and 1920
• Spurting Rock (watercolor), between 1885 and 1897
• Still Life (watercolor), between 1897 and 1920
• The Breadwinner (watercolor), 1891, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
• The Farm House (watercolor), between 1885 and 1897
• The Marsh (oil painting)
• Through the Meadows in Holland
• Untitled (Landscape with Bridge), Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
• Weaving Homespun, Canada (oil painting) c.1904, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
• Wheelwright at Work (oil painting), nude drawing, around 1880
• Wheelwright at Work (oil painting), interior scene, around 1880
• Windmills (oil painting), between 1897 and 1920
• Young Boys in Landscape (oil painting), Lagakos-Turak Gallery, Philadelphia

British India

The following works were created in British India in 1913 and exhibited at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester and Milwaukee in 1915:

• Bazaar at Little Agra
• Bombay Street
• Candy bazaar, Agra
• Ceylon House Servant
• Chauk bazaar, Lucknow
• Delhi Fruit Stand
• Dye house at Udaipur
• Entrance to a Temple, Jaipur
• Holy Man's Tomb at Agra (oil painting), c. 1895, Wells College, Aurora, New York
• Leogryphs, Rangood, Burma (watercolor)
• Native quarter, Bombay (watercolor)
• Snake charmer
• Street corner, Udaipur
• Street of dye houses, Little Agra
• Temple at Little Agra
• Tomb at Agra (watercolor)
• Water carrier

gallery

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  The Breadwinner, 1893

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  Spring Landscape (watercolor painting)

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  Villa Terrace (oil painting), before 1910

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  Stone House

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Richard H. Love; Carl William Peters: Carl W. Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester to Rockport , University of Rochester Press; January 1, 1999, ISBN 978-1-58046-024-8 , p. 91
2. ↑ ^{a b} Notes on Emma E. Lampert, passport issued July 3, 1891, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington DC; Passport Applications, 1795-1905; Collection Number: ARC Identifier 566612 / MLR Number A1 508; NARA Series: M1372; Roll #: 377
3. ^ William H. Gerdts , Deborah Epstein Solon, Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr .: East Coast / West Coast and Beyond: Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist , Hudson Hills Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-55595-269-3 , p 54
4. ^ Emma E. Lampert obituary, The New York Times, Aug. 21, 1920
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Emma Esther Lampert on the Rochester Art Club website ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ records of Emma E. Lampert, census of 1855 in the state of New York, Nunda Village, Livingston County, New York, Census of the state of New York, for 1855, microfiche, New York State Archives, Albany, New York
7. ↑ Records on Emma E. Lampert, United States 1870 Census, 1870 US census, population schedules, NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls, Washington, DC : National Archives and Records Administration, n.
8. ^ Notes on Henry Lampert, Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, Louisville , Kentucky : National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Microfilm, 508 rolls
9. ^ Notes to Henry Lampert, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, DC; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War); Collection Name: Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records); ARC Identifier: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 3 of 7
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} John William Leonard; William Frederick Mohr; Frank R. Holmes: Who's Who in New York City and State , LR Hamersly Company, 1907, p. 329
11. ↑ Historic Timeline of Clifton Springs, New York ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Foster Cottage Museum 
12. ^ William H. Gerdts, Deborah Epstein Solon, Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr .: East Coast / West Coast and Beyond: Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist , Hudson Hills Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-55595-269-3 , p . 18, 54 and 58
13. ^ William H. Gerdts, Deborah Epstein Solon, Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr .: East Coast / West Coast and Beyond: Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist , Hudson Hills Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-55595-269-3 , p 71 and 130
14. ↑ Richard H. Love; Carl William Peters: Carl W. Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester to Rockport , University of Rochester Press; January 1, 1999, ISBN 978-1-58046-024-8 , p. 101
15. ↑ Richard H. Love; Carl William Peters: Carl W. Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester to Rockport , University Rochester Press, January 1, 1999, ISBN 978-1-58046-024-8 , pp. 111f
16. ↑ James H. Lambert, Pennsylvania, Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission: The story of Pennsylvania at the World's Fair St. Louis, 1904 , The Pennsylvania Commission, 1905, pp. 57, 335, 336
17. ^ William H. Gerdts, Deborah Epstein Solon, Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr .: East Coast / West Coast and Beyond: Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist , Hudson Hills Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-55595-269-3 , p 62
18. ^ Group exhibition of recent paintings by Helen Watson Phelps, Alice Schille, Adelaide Deming and Emma Lampert Cooper (electronic resource): pictures of India, Mar. 1-13, 1915 , Internet Archive
19. ^ ^{A b} Annette Stott: Floral Femininity: A Pictorial Definition , American Art, The University of Chicago Press, 6: 2, Spring 1992, p. 75
20. ^ Annette Stott: Floral Femininity: A Pictorial Definition , American Art, The University of Chicago Press, 6: 2, Spring 1992, p. 61
21. ^ Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
22. ^ Gray Day, Mystic, Connecticut, (painting) , Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum
23. ^ Life Work , Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum
24. ^ Holy Man's Tomb at Agra, (painting) , Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum
25. ↑ Pamela Wall, Sara Arnold: Outside Perspectives: Visiting Artists in Charleston , Antiques & Fine Art, 11th Anniversary, 2011, p. 305
26. ↑ Colin Campbell Cooper Biography , National Museum of Wildlife Art
27. ↑ Ruth Lilly Westphal, Martin E. Petersen, Janet B. Dominik: Plein Air Painters of California: The North, Irvine, CA: Westphal Publishing, 1986, ISBN 0-9610520-1-5 , p. 61
28. ^ ^{A b} Titanic Hero Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. , Mental Floss, March 10, 2009
29. ↑ RMS Titanic History and Biography: Irene Harris , Encyclopedia Titanica
30. ^ Emma Lampert Cooper papers , Manuscript Collection, River Campus Library, University of Rochester