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William Anderson Coffin was the son of James Gardiner and Isabella Catharine (Anderson) Coffin of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States where William was born on January 31, 1855.
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William Anderson Coffin was the son of James Gardiner and Isabella Catharine (Anderson) Coffin of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States where William was born on January 31, 1855.
Coffin was graduated from Yale in 1874 when, as he told F. W. Coburn, “finding the business life to which his father had destined him intensely disagreeable, he could think of nothing more pleasant than to return to New Haven. ” Not knowing just what he wanted to do, he registered at the Yale Art School, and became fascinated by the allurements of the painter’s profession. In 1877 he went to Paris where he was a pupil of Leon Bonnat.
In 1882 Coffin opened a studio in New York, intending to be a portrait painter. His devotion to landscape, in which he attained his special distinction, resulted from some successful exhibition pieces which he painted in 1886 and 1887. In 1901 Coffin served as director of fine arts at the Buffalo Exposition. He was a member of the advisory board of the art department, Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915. During the World War he was president of the American Artists’ Committee of One Hundred to raise relief funds for the families of artist-soldiers of France. He was appointed by the French government in 1919 president of a committee to arrange an exhibition of American paintings and sculptures at the Luxembourg Museum.
Coffin’s influence as lecturer and writer was considerable. He served as art critic of the New York Evening Post and the Nation, 1886-1891, and of the New York Sun, 1896-1900. His landscapes, many of them painted in Pennsylvania, were made intelligently and artistically; his experiments with formal and decorative landscape were not uniformly successful. Examples of his work may be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences; National Museum, Washington; Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis; and in other public collections.
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Coffin was a member of various art organizations including the Lotos Club, the Architectural league of New York, and the National Academy of Design.
Coffin was never married.