The Académie Delécluse was an atelier-style art school in Paris, France, founded in the late 19th century by the painter Auguste Joseph Delécluse. It was exceptionally supportive of women artists, with more space being given to women students than to men.
Channel Pickering Townsley painting, 1919, Académie Delécluse alumni
Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. was an American impressionist painter of architectural paintings, especially of skyscrapers in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. An avid traveler, he was also known for his paintings of European and Asian landmarks, as well as natural landscapes, portraits, florals, and interiors. In addition to being a painter, he was also a teacher and writer. His first wife, Emma Lampert Cooper, was also a highly regarded painter.
Colin Campbell Cooper, c. 1905
Portrait of Emma Lampert Cooper by Cooper, c. 1897
Rescue of the Survivors of the Titanic by the Carpathia, 1912
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, c. 1915, now housed at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California