biographie de Emma Lambert COOPER (1860-1920)

Birth place: Nunda, NY

Death place: Pittsfield, NY

Addresses: Rochester, NY, 1880s-95; Phila., 1898; NYC, from c.1905

Profession: Painter

Studied: Wells College; CUASch; ASL; with Agnes Abbatt, William M. Chase; H. Thompson, L.O. Merson in Paris; J. Kever, in Holland.

Exhibited: Brooklyn AA, 1881-84, 1891 (as Lampert); NAD (1883-95 as Lampert; 1898-1920 as Cooper); Paris Salon, 1887, 1892; PAFA, 18 annuals, 1888-1920; AIC, 29 annuals, 1890-1919; Columbian Expo., Chicago, 1893; Atlanta Expo., 1895 (med.); Royal Canadian Acad., 1897; Boston AC, 1898-1909; AAS, 1902 (gold); St. Louis Expo., 1904 (med.); Corcoran Gal., 1907-10; NY Women's AC, 1907 (prize); Pan.-Am. Expo., San Fran., 1915; Pan. Calif. Expo., 1915-16.

Member: Phila. WCC; NYWCC; SPNY; AWCS; Women's Art Assoc. of Canada (pres., 1897)

Comments: She exhibited as Lampert until 1897, when she married artist Colin Campbell Cooper. Her subjects included still lifes and scenes from her travels, which were frequent. Traveled to Europe, Canada, India, and throughout the U.S., including Cragsmoor, NY, in 1913 and California in the winter of 1915/16. Teaching: hd., art dept., Foster School, Clifton Springs, NY; Mechanic's Inst., Rochester, NY, 1893-97.

Sources: WW19; Falk, Exhibition Record Series; Hughes, Artists in California, 115; Cragsmoor Artists' Vision of Nature, exh. brochure (Cragsmoor Free Library, NY, 1977); Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 364