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
American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors with a wide array of subject matters but focusing on landscapes and upper-class domestic life.
Frank W. Benson, Eleanor Holding a Shell, North Haven, Maine, 1902, private collection
Theodore Robinson, Low Tide Riverside Yacht Club, (1894), Collection of Margaret and Raymond Horowitz
Mary Cassatt, The Child's Bath (1893)
Childe Hassam, Cliffs and Sea, 1903, private collection