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Emma Lampert Cooper (February 24, 1855 – July 30, 1920) was a painter from Rochester, New York, described as "a painter of exceptional ability".[1] She studied in Rochester, New York; New York City under William Merritt Chase, Paris at the Académie Delécluse and in the Netherlands under Hein Kever. Cooper won awards at several World's Expositions, taught art and was an art director. She met her husband, Colin Campbell Cooper in the Netherlands and the two traveled, painted and exhibited their works together.

Emma Lampert Cooper
Portrait of Emma Lampert Cooper by Colin Campbell Cooper
Born	Emma Esther Lampert (1855-02-24)February 24, 1855 Nunda, NY
Died	June 30, 1920(1920-06-30) (aged 65) Pittsford, NY
Nationality	American
Education	Art Students League
Known for	Painting
Movement	Realism
Spouse(s)	Colin Campbell Cooper (m. 1897)
Awards	Chicago's World's Fair in 1893 St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 (bronze)

Early life

Emma Esther Lampert was born in Nunda, New York on February 24, 1855,[2][3] to Henry and Jenette (Smith) Lampert.[4] That year her father – born in Hanover, Germany – was a tanner and two other German tanners and a servant were living in the house with the family. Emma had an older sister name Mary, younger sisters Carrie and Adella, and a younger brother named Henry. The family lived in Rochester, New York and her father was a leather wholesaler by 1870.[5][6] Her father registered for the draft for the American Civil War in June 1863. He died June 10, 1880.[7][8]

Career

Education and early career

She graduated from Wells College in Aurora, New York, in 1875.[4][9] Cooper was a founding member of the Eastern Association of Wells College alumni.[9]

In 1877, the Rochester Art Club was formed, and Cooper was its first vice president, marking the beginning of a long relationship with the Club. She held the positions of vice president, secretary and president and was a member until 1895. From 1870 to 1886 Cooper had a studio in the historic Powers Building in Rochester, New York.[4] Within Rochester, she had a "notable influence" on the city's art community.[2]

She returned to New York City to study at the Art Students League and Cooper Union, and she studied under William Merritt Chase.[2][4][9] Cooper studied in Paris at the Académie Delécluse for 18 months in the mid-1880s[2][4] and under Hein Kever in the Netherlands in 1891.[3][4]

Educator

From 1891 to 1893 Cooper taught painting and was the art director at the Foster School in Clifton Springs, New York,[9] which was open between 1876 and 1885.[10] From 1893 through 1897, Cooper taught at the Mechanics Institute, now the Rochester Institute of Technology.[4][9]

Marriage

In 1897, while working and living in Dordrecht, she met painter Colin Campbell Cooper. They married on June 9, 1897 in Rochester, New York. The couple traveled abroad between 1898 and 1902, living in the Laren artist colony in the Netherlands for one year. Then, they primarily lived in New York City, and also traveled extensively, to Europe and her hometown, Rochester.[11] They were in India in 1913, reputedly both having been commissioned by a patroness from the United States to make paintings. The works from that trip were exhibited in Rochester, New York in 1915.[12] Because of her work in the United States and abroad, she was considered knowledgeable of the international art community.[2]

Art works and exhibitions

Her subjects were primarily still lifes and landscapes from her travels. She closed her Rochester studio in 1886 and traveled to Paris.[4] In 1887 she exhibited Hillside at Picardy at the Paris Salon. For her painting Breadwinner, Cooper was given an award at the Chicago's World's Fair in 1893[9][13] and the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta in 1895.[9] Cooper was awarded a gold medal at the 1902 American Art Society exhibition in Philadelphia.[4] She exhibited oil and watercolor paintings at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 and won a bronze medal for a Weaving Homespun[14] and another bronze medal.[4][9] Her works were exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900.[9][15] Cooper's paintings were exhibited with her husband' in shows in Rochester, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia, and Buffalo between 1902 and 1910.[16] In 1915 she showed paintings of India alongside works by Alice Schille, Adelaide Deming and Helen Watson Phelps in New York.[17]

Cooper became an artist during the 19th century when there was a significant number of women who became successful, educated artists, a rarity before that time, except for a few like Angelica Kauffman and Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842).[19] The emerging women artists created works with a different perspective than men, challenged the limited concepts of femininity and created a genre of floral-female landscape paintings, 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." These artists were among the educated, sophisticated "New Women" beginning in the late 19th century, whose influence was largely ignored by art scholars.[18]

Cooper was one of the well-educated artists who became a successful landscape painter and academic figure who began as a children's book illustrator and painter of miniatures and flower paintings. Realizing the difficulty in making the transition to a successful painter, particularly of landscape and figure paintings, Cooper warned other women artists of the difficulty in creating a successful career in such works. She, however, was able to overcome the obstacles and become a successful landscape artist.[19]

Cooper was a member of the Women's International Art Club in London, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Women's Art Association of Canada. In New York, she was a member of Woman's Art Club, National Arts Club, and the New York Watercolor Club.[4][9] She was a charter member of the Rochester Art Club and the Philadelphia Water Color Club.[4]

Collections

Cooper's paintings are held in private and public collections, including the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester;[20] Strong Museum in Rochester, New York;[21] Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina;[22] and Wells College in Aurora, New York.[23]

Carpathia

The couple was among the first class passengers on the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia en route from New York to Gibraltar in April 1912, when it picked up the survivors of the RMS Titanic.[24][25][26] They aided in the rescue of survivors[27] and shared their room and took care of survivor Irene Harris, the wife of theatre manager Henry B. Harris, who had perished in the sinking.[28] Colin Campbell Cooper subsequently made several paintings of the Titanic.[27]

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

Death

She died in 1920[29] at home of her sister, Mrs. John Steele[30] in Pittsford, New York on July 30. She is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York.[4]

In January 1940, a retrospective exhibition of her works was held at George H. Brodhead Fine Arts in Rochester.[4] Her and her husband's papers are held in the manuscript collection of the River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester.[31]

Works

Europe or North America

India

Works made in India in 1913 and exhibited in the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester and Milwaukee in 1915 include:[35][36]

References

Further reading

• "Emma Lampert Cooper pages". Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.

На других языках

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[de] Emma Lampert Cooper

Emma Esther Lampert Cooper (* 24. Februar 1855 in Nunda, New York;[1][2] † 30. Juli 1920 in Pittsford, New York)[3][4] war eine US-amerikanische Malerin, Kunstlehrerin und Artdirector. Ihr Ehemann war der Maler Colin Campbell Cooper.

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- [en] Emma Lampert Cooper

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[fr] Emma Lampert Cooper

Emma Lampert Cooper (24 février 1855 - 30 juillet 1920) est une artiste peintre de la ville de Rochester dans l'État de New York. On y dit qu’elle est "une peintre à la technique exceptionnelle". Elle étudie dans la même ville puis dans la ville de New-York avec  William Merritt Chase comme professeur. Elle étudie aussi à Paris à l'Académie Delécluse et aux Pays-Bas avec Hein Kever en tant que mentor. Cooper gagne des trophées lors de plusieurs expositions universelles. Elle devient plus tard professeure d'art ainsi que directrice artistique. Elle rencontre son futur mari, Colin Campbell Cooper, aux Pays-Bas et ils voyagent, peignent et exposent ensemble.

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[ru] Купер, Эмма

Эмма Купер (англ. Emma Lampert Cooper; 1855—1920) — американская художница и педагог, жена художника Колина Купера.

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