Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937) American Impressionist Painter

Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1915

Colin C. Cooper (b. in Philadelphia, PA) studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and at Académie Julian in Paris. Upon his return to Philadelphia, the artist taught watercolor classes at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry
Cooper married well-known artist Emma Lampert in 1897; the couple traveled to Germany, Italy, India and Burma. They were the first class passengers on the Cunard liner Carpathia in April 1912, en route from New York to Gibraltar, when it picked up the survivors of the RMS Titanic.

Japanese Tea Garden,San Diego Exposition, 1916

In 1898 Cooper with his wife moved to New York. There he started working on his famous skyscraper paintings.
After his wife Emma died of tuberculosis in 1920, the painter moved to Santa Barbara and became dean of the School of Painting at the Santa Barbara Community School of Arts. In 1927 Cooper married his second wife, Marie Frehsee.

Women in Painting by Colin C. Cooper

Place de l'Opera, Paris, 1895

The Harbor at Dordrecht, Holland

A Santa Barbara Courtyard

a Garden in Granada in the Moonlight

California Water Garden at Redlands

Columbus Circle, 1909

Greco-Roman Theatre at Night, Taoromina, Sicily

In Balboa Park, San Diego, California

Samarkand, Santa Barbara

Main Street Bridge, Rochester, 1908

Central Park

Chateau

Flatiron Building, 1908

French Village Scene

Adam and eve Inn, Lincoln, England, 1902, watercolor

Cottage Interior

The Village of Castle Combe in England

Along a Venetian Canal

View of New York City, watercolor

River Bathers

Hunter College, New York City

Taj Mahal, 1913

Church on Quay

Chartres Cathedral

Early Colorado Forest Scene

Wells Cathedral