Nessa Cohen

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Nessa Cohen (born on 11. December 1884 in New York City as Helen Nessa Cohen , died on 16th December 1976 ibid) was an American sculptor . She exhibited at the International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913 and took part in the art competitions of the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam .

Early life

Nessa Cohen: Sunrise , bronze , exhibited at the Armory Show in 1913

Helen Nessa Cohen was born on December 11, 1884 in New York City. Her parents were Pauline and Adolph Cohen, who came from Germany and was a lawyer . Both parents had German and Russian ancestors. Cohen also had an older sister named Sadie.

education

After graduating from Barnard College , Cohen studied sculpture with James Earle Fraser at the Art Students League of New York and at the private college Cooper Union . She also studied with Despiau and Charles Malfray in Paris .

Career

Before 1913, the American Museum of Natural History Cohen made funds available so that she and other artists could travel to the southwestern United States to meet people from six different Indian tribes and to record their clothing and idiosyncrasies. Among the incurred in this connection works belonged to Cohen's famous Bronze - Sculpture Sunrise. She presented sketches to the museum so that her skills could be assessed before she was sent back to the South West; then her work Hopi Relay Runner was created .

Cohen showed three works at the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art in New York: two plaster works ( Age and Portrait ) and the bronze statue Sunrise .

Sunrise was exhibited at the Annual American Exhibition in Chicago in 1916 , along with the bronze statues The Velvet Cap , Joy, and Card tray: Hospitality .

Cohen was a member of the National Sculpture Society and presented the work Moment Musicale to the society there in 1923 . She was also a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors , the New York Architectural League, and the Society of Independent Artists .

In 1928 she took part in the art competitions of the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam in the discipline "Sculpture / Statues", but won no medal with her statue Hopi Estafette (Coureur) . She also made trips to Italy and France.

death

Cohen died in New York City in December 1976, days after she turned 92. She built for the Art Students League of New York to The Nessa Cohen Memorial Fund , a Fund , may be obtained from the art students funding for housing, education and travel expenses.

Works (selection)

  • Age , plaster of paris
  • Card tray: hospitality
  • Group of Indians of Southwestern United States, American Museum of Natural History.
  • Joy
  • Navajo Watching Women at Work
  • Portrait , plaster
  • Sunrise, bronze, Havana, Cuba
  • The Velvet Cap

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nessa Cohen Bio, Stats, and Results. In: sports-reference.com. Accessed June 17, 2017 .
  2. ^ American Jewish Committee; Jewish Publication Society of America. American Jewish year book . American Jewish Committee; 1922, p. 129.
  3. ^ Record for Helen N. Cohen. 1900 Manhattan, New York, New York; Roll: 1120; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 0879; FHL microfilm: 1241120. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.
  4. ↑ a b Record for Helen Cohen - born December 11, 1884 and died December 1976. Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.
  5. ↑ Chris Petteys: Dictionary of Women Artists , GK Hill & Co. publishers, 1985.
  6. ↑ I Prefer the Navajo Rug: Locating an American Primitive ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / xroads.virginia.edu archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . The Museum of American Studies. University of Virginia, accessed February 7, 2014.
  7. ↑ a b c d Milton W. Broen: The Story of the Armory Show , The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 232.
  8. ↑ a b c d Art Institute of Chicago. Annual American Exhibition [of] Paintings and Sculpture . The Art Institute of Chicago. 1916.
  9. ^ A b c d National Sculpture Society, Exhibition of American Sculpture Catalog , National Sculpture Society, NY 1923, pp. 258, 327
  10. ^ Art Competitions at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Mixed Sculpturing, Statues. In: sports-reference.com. May 17, 1928, accessed June 17, 2017 .
  11. ↑ YIVO Archives. Guide to the YIVO Archives . ME Sharpe; 1998. ISBN 978-0-7656-0130-8 . p. 56.
  12. ^ Art Students League (New York, NY) The Art Students League . The League; 1978. p. 23.
  13. ^ Schoolhouse Partners LLC: Directory of Research Grants 2008. AuthorHouse, 2008, ISBN 978-1-434-34698-8 , p. 87 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Nessa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohen, Helen Nessa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptress
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1976
Place of death New York City