Frederick Simpson Coburn was a painter, illustrator, photographer, etcher and dancer (1) who was born and died in Upper Melbourne, Quebec (about 90 miles southeast of Montreal). From about 1890 until... Read full biography
Frederick Simpson Coburn was a painter, illustrator, photographer, etcher and dancer (1) who was born and died in Upper Melbourne, Quebec (about 90 miles southeast of Montreal). From about 1890 until 1916 he lived in Europe, most of that time in Antwerp, Holland. When he returned to Canada, he... Read full biography
Frederick Simpson Coburn was a painter, illustrator, photographer, etcher and dancer (1) who was born and died in Upper Melbourne, Quebec (about 90 miles southeast of Montreal). From about 1890 until 1916 he lived in Europe, most of that time in Antwerp, Holland. When he returned to Canada, he maintained homes in Upper Melbourne and in Montreal. His mediums were oil, pastel, pencil, watercolour, graphite, crayon, photography and etching. His subjects were winter scenes, horses, logging,... Read full biography
Frederick Simpson Coburn was a painter, illustrator, photographer, etcher and dancer (1) who was born and died in Upper Melbourne, Quebec (about 90 miles southeast of Montreal). From about 1890 until 1916 he lived in Europe, most of that time in Antwerp, Holland. When he returned to Canada, he maintained homes in Upper Melbourne and in Montreal. His mediums were oil, pastel, pencil, watercolour, graphite, crayon, photography and etching. His subjects were winter scenes, horses, logging, landscapes (mostly of Quebec, however, there are some from his travels in Europe), genre, still life, portraits, figures, nudes and dancers. Starting in about 1898, under contract to Putnam Publishing (New York), he did illustrations for books, including... Read full biography
Frederick Simpson Coburn was a painter, illustrator, photographer, etcher and dancer (1) who was born and died in Upper Melbourne, Quebec (about 90 miles southeast of Montreal). From about 1890 until 1916 he lived in Europe, most of that time in Antwerp, Holland. When he returned to Canada, he maintained homes in Upper Melbourne and in Montreal. His mediums were oil, pastel, pencil, watercolour, graphite, crayon, photography and etching. His subjects were winter scenes, horses, logging, landscapes (mostly of Quebec, however, there are some from his travels in Europe), genre, still life, portraits, figures, nudes and dancers. Starting in about 1898, under contract to Putnam Publishing (New York), he did illustrations for books, including ones by Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning and Canadian poet Wil... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (19)
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists, English Version and Online (Fourteen Volumes)
2006
Benezit, E
0 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001
Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar
622 pages
F.S. Coburn: Beyond The Landscape
1996
Coburn, Evelyn Lloyd
144 pages (color)
The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Hill, Charles C
374 pages (color)
Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981
1991
Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson
1,557 pages (color)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
417 pages
The American Pupils of Jean-Leon Gerome
1984
Weinberg, H Barbara
113 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (8 Volumes)
1974
MacDonald, Colin, S.
3,667 pages
Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection
1970
Bradfield, Helen Pepall
603 pages
Painting in Canada: A History (Second Edition)
1966
Harper, J Russell
443 pages
In a Canadian Attic
1964
Stevens, Gerald
260 pages (color)
The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III
1960
Hubbard, R.H.
463 pages
Frederick Simpson Coburn
1958
Stevens, Gerald
72 pages (color)
Catalog of Paintings National Gallery of Canada (Exhibition catalog)
1948
National Gallery Of Canada
271 pages
Canadian Art-Its Origin and Development (Paperback) 1967
1943
Colgate, William
278 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index