Born in Waterville, New York, Charlotte Buell Coman was a prominent late 19th, early 20th-century landscape artist known for her Tonalist* paintings, especially with misty blue coloration. She was a key painter in bringing the Barbizon* tradition from France to America.

This style and method emanated from a group of painters, led by Jean Corot and Charles Daubigny, who frequented the French village of Barbizon and did plein-air* painting in realist style of bucolic subjects such as shepherd girls herding their flocks. It was a revolutionary departure from studio painting and from prescribed academic subjects.
Coman was born in Waterville, New York to a family that ran a tannery and shoe factory. She married early and moved ...