John Ery Coleman was an American artist active over the latter half of the twentieth century.
Background
John Ery Coleman was born in Hamburg, Germany, the younger of two sons raised by Nathaniel Ragsdale Coleman, Senior, and the former Frances Esders. His father was a tobacco merchant from Virginia who, after serving with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, set up a tobacco brokerage house in Hamburg.
Education
Coleman"s brother, National, Junior., attended Rocklands Home School, a preparatory school in England not far from Hastings, and later the Abbotsholme School in rural Derbyshire along the Staffordshire border.
Career
Coleman"s mother was a London-born lyric soprano who later sang principal roles with the Dresden opera. Since the two brothers were less than a year apart in age, it is possible they were enrolled together. Coleman enlisted after a year"s college as a private in the United States. Army on April 3, 1943, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
After the war years, Coleman studied art in Mexico City under Professor Isidoro Ocampo and in Paris with Johnny Friedlaender.
Coleman married Jennifer Howard on July 28, 1972, in Los Los Angeles Howard was a former actress, the daughter of Sidney Howard and Clare Eames, who later became a watercolor and acrylic artist.
Both Coleman and Howard died in 1993.