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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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Keywords (19)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Urban Scene, City Genre
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
Art Association
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
- •New York Water Color Club, Society-
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Genre Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts