About Jack Coggins

  • Biography

    The following, submitted January 2006, is from David Coggins, cousin of the artist. His sources are personal knowledge and personal interview with the artist, which was published in the Historical Review of Berks County, Spring 2001.


    Jack Coggins is a painter who is known in the United States for his oil paintings of predominantly marine subjects.

    Jack Banham Coggins was born in London on 10th July 1911, the only son of Sidney George Coggins, the Riding Master of the First Regiment of Lifeguards. When his father was retrenched, the family migrated to the United States in 1923. After studying at the Grand Central School of Art and the Art Students League in New York, Jack devoted ...

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