Colin Campbell Cooper Oil Painting Reproductions

Colin Campbell Cooper, An American Impressionist.

Colin Campbell Cooper was born in Philadelphia in 1856. His father was a professional surgeon originally from Ireland. He is an American Impressionist artist known for his cityscape paintings and skyline scenes of Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago. He studied under the tutelage of Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Cooper was well-traveled, particularly throughout Europe. From 1886 to 1890, he lived in Paris, studying at the Académie Julian alongside Jules Joseph Lefebvre and William Adolphe Bouguereau.

Cooper's famous American Impressionist paintings of cityscape art include:

Paintings of New York City

• Hudson River Waterfront, New York City, 1921. Owned by the New York Historical Society Museum and Library. This oil canvas painting includes the Woolworth and Singer Buildings.
• South Ferry, New York, 1917
• Wall Street Ferry Ship c1920
• Waldorf Astoria, New York, c1908 Oil painting of the view from Fifth Avenue towards the Waldorf Astoria.
• Fifth Avenue, New York 1906. Also in the ownership of the New York Historical Society
• New York From Brooklyn, c1922

Famous Impressionist Paintings by Colin Campbell Cooper

• Windsor Castle 1920
• Taj Mahal Afternoon c1913
• Rooftops at Sunset 1912

In addition to paintings of New York City, Cooper also created cityscape paintings of skyscrapers in Chicago and Philadelphia. His work includes several portraits and landscape paintings of the gardens in and around Santa Barbara. Colin Campbell Cooper's Impressionist paintings feature scenes from his travels along the West and East Coasts of America. In 1921, he moved to California following the death of his first wife and remained in Santa Barbara until he died in 1937 at the age of 81.

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