Ethel Louise Coe
Biography
BIRTH DATE: November 11, 1878
BIRTH PLACE: Chicago, Illinois
DEATH DATE: March 22, 1938
DEATH PLACE: Evanston, Illinois
RESIDENCE(S)
circa 1902-1915: 1223 Elmwood Ave, Evanston, Illinois
1905-1906: 1223 Benson Ave., Evanston, Illinois
Fortuny 5, Madrid, Spain
STUDIO LOCATION(S)
circa 1902: 4 E. Ohio St., Chicago, Illinois 1911: 1016 Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Illinois 1915: 11 Tree Studio, Chicago, Illinois
TRAINING
1897-1901/1898-1902: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; undergraduate degree, cum laude
1901-1903, 1906-1907: graduate work at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1909-1910: Cape Code School of Art, student of Charles W. Hawthorne, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1911-1913: Student of Joaquim Sorolla y Bastida, Madrid, Spain [at his invitation, because “he like her feeling for color and light and the fresh spontaneity of her compositions….” North, Jessica Nelson, “Ethel L. Coe: A Disciple of Light”, The American Magazine of Art, p. 309]Exhibitions
January 31-February 26, 1905: Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois;
Cover Design: June; Cover Design; Page decoration – A Princess, pencil and wash
January 30-February 25, 1906: Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait Study, oil; Page decoration, charcoal and watercolor
February 4-March 1, 1908: Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Drawing; Drawing
January 4-30, 1910: Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait of Mrs. Robert J. Bassett, miniature; Portrait of Miss Amy Sanders; Portrait of Miss Marjorie Coe; The Lumber Wharf, Provincetown, Mass.
January 31-February 26, 1911: Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Fairy Tale; A Fisherman; The Dead Forest; Mending the Leader; The Glass Float
February 3-March 1, 1914: Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Eighteenth Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; “La Cocina” Binivasi, Majoreo; Father and Daughter; La Segoviana; El Traje de Gala; El Puente de Raices, Asturias
1915: Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California
February 9-March 5, 1916: Twentieth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago & Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Marjorie (miniature); The Crystal; Head of a Child
April 25-May 7, 1916: Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition of the Art Students’ League of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Olives-Majorca; La Cocina-Binivasi; Long’s Peak, Ele’s Park, Cal.; Canyon of the Big Thompson—Ele’s Park, Cal.; Vista de la Sierra--Madrid
February 1-March 4, 1917: Twenty-First Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago & Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Encore; Joy
February 14-March 17, 1918: Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago & Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Red Fan; “Growing Leaf,” An Indian Girl; On the Housetop, Taos, N.M.; Late Afternoon, Taos, N.M.; A Bearer of Burdens; Adobe Town
February 13-March 30, 1919: Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago & Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Summer Gold; Two From the Pueblo; A Horse to Trade; Pueblo Mother and Child
1922: Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1933: Shawnee Country Club, Wilmette, Illinois
2008: American Artists Abroad, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Evanston Art Center
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Water Jar of Santa Clara
National Arts Club, New York, New York: California Sunlight
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
exhibited with Chicago Artists’ Society and with Water Color Society
Collections:
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois
Kohler Art Gallery, Kohler, Wisconsin
Municipal Art Collection, Chicago, Illinois
Santa Fe Railway Company, Schaumburg, Illinois
Sioux City Art Museum, Sioux City, Iowa
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Vanderpoel Collection, Chicago, Illinois
The Woman's Club of Evanston, Evanston, Illinois
Showing the single artwork