Katherine M. Cohen
Katherine Myrtilla Cohen (March 18, 1859 – December 14, 1914) was an American sculptor.
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- Name
- Katherine M.
- Birth Name
- Katherine Myrtilla Cohen
- Born
- 18 March 1859
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
- Died
- 14 December 1914
- Occupation
- Sculptor
- Education
- Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
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Katherine Myrtilla Cohen (March 18, 1859 – December 14, 1914) was an American sculptor.
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• Name — Katherine M. Cohen • Birth Name — Katherine Myrtilla Cohen • Born — 18 March 1859 • Birthplace — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US • Died — 14 December 1914 • Place of death — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US • Occupation — Sculptor • Education — Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
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• Illustration — Bust of General James Beaver of Perry County, Pennsylvania, by Katherine M. Cohen Cohen was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 18, 1859, to Henry Cohen, originally from London, and Matilda (Samuel) Cohen, originally from Liverpool. She received elite-level training in art, studying first at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under painter Thomas Eakins, and later working at the Art Students League in New York City as an assistant in the studio of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. She opened her own studio in Philadelphia in 1884. Three years later, she began working for sculptors Denys Puech and Marius Jean Antonin Mercié in Paris, where she was elected an honorary member of the American Art Association. Cohen exhibited a work, Bust of Harry Souther at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois in 1893. Cohen died at her home in Philadelphia on December 14, 1914.
Katherine Myrhilla Cohen (1859 - 1914) watercolor on paper, orientalist street scene, signed lower left KM Cohen, sight size: 7" x 5".
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1859
Katherine M. Cohen born at Philadelphia.
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- 1.Heap Gleaves, Evelina. Notable Women of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Press. 264–265. 1942-12-31. 978-1-5128-1447-7.
- 2.Siegel, Michele. Katherine M. Cohen, 1859–1914. Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive. March 1, 2009.
- 3.Carr, Carolyn Kinder, et al., Revisiting the White City : American Art at the 1893 World's Fair, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1993 p. 362
- 4.Woman Sculptor Dies. The Pittsburgh Post. 3. 1914-12-14.
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