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Irma Koen BIOGRAPHY
1884 Rock Island - 1975. Known for: Urbanscape, landscape, genre; writer, lecturer.
The modern painter Irma René Koen (neé Irma Julia Kohn) was born in Rock Island, IL (b. October 8, 1883-d. July 16, 1975). She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with prominent landscape painter... Read full biography
The modern painter Irma René Koen (neé Irma Julia Kohn) was born in Rock Island, IL (b. October 8, 1883-d. July 16, 1975). She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with prominent landscape painter Charles Francis Browne (1859-1920) and with leading Danish-American portraitist John Christen... Read full biography
The modern painter Irma René Koen (neé Irma Julia Kohn) was born in Rock Island, IL (b. October 8, 1883-d. July 16, 1975). She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with prominent landscape painter Charles Francis Browne (1859-1920) and with leading Danish-American portraitist John Christen Johansen (1876–1964). While residing in Rock Island or Chicago, Koen also spent summers painting in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Maine, most notably with the New Hope Circle Impressionists including... Read full biography
The modern painter Irma René Koen (neé Irma Julia Kohn) was born in Rock Island, IL (b. October 8, 1883-d. July 16, 1975). She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with prominent landscape painter Charles Francis Browne (1859-1920) and with leading Danish-American portraitist John Christen Johansen (1876–1964). While residing in Rock Island or Chicago, Koen also spent summers painting in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Maine, most notably with the New Hope Circle Impressionists including William Langson Lathrop (1859-1938) and the eminent teacher Henry Bayley Snell (1858-1943) at the Boothbay Harbor summer art colony in Maine. Koen painted here in Illinois, and briefly in California and New Mexico, as well as along the East Coast, and... Read full biography
The modern painter Irma René Koen (neé Irma Julia Kohn) was born in Rock Island, IL (b. October 8, 1883-d. July 16, 1975). She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with prominent landscape painter Charles Francis Browne (1859-1920) and with leading Danish-American portraitist John Christen Johansen (1876–1964). While residing in Rock Island or Chicago, Koen also spent summers painting in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Maine, most notably with the New Hope Circle Impressionists including William Langson Lathrop (1859-1938) and the eminent teacher Henry Bayley Snell (1858-1943) at the Boothbay Harbor summer art colony in Maine. Koen painted here in Illinois, and briefly in California and New Mexico, as well as along the East Coast, and abroad in England (St. Ives, Cornwall, art colony), France, Africa, Asia, and Spain, among other locales. She established her painting stu... Read full biography
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Irma René Koehn, Irma Köhn, Irma Rene Kohn, Irma Roen
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The modern painter Irma René Koen (neé Irma Julia Kohn) was born in Rock Island, IL (b. October 8, 1883-d. July 16, 1975). She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with prominent landscape painter Charles Francis Browne (1859-1920) and with leading Danish-American portraitist John Christen Johansen (1876–1964).
While residing in Rock Island or Chicago, Koen also spent summers painting in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Maine, most notably with the New Hope Circle Impressionists including William Langson Lathrop (1859-1938) and the eminent teacher Henry Bayley Snell (1858-1943) at the Boothbay Harbor summer art colony in Maine. Koen painted here in Illinois, and briefly in California and New Mexico, as well as along the East Coast,...But wait, there's more...
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