Brandywine Museum of Art
One Hoffmans Mill Road
Po Box 141
Chadds Ford, PA 19317
Po Box 141
Chadds Ford, PA 19317
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1855 West Chester, Pennsylvania - 1929 West Chester, Pennsylvania. Known for: Trompe still life and landscape painting.
Best known for "trompe l'oeil" or highly realistic still life painting, especially hanging game, George Cope spent most of his life around the Brandywine River Valley in West Chester, Pennsylvania,... Read full biography
Best known for "trompe l'oeil" or highly realistic still life painting, especially hanging game, George Cope spent most of his life around the Brandywine River Valley in West Chester, Pennsylvania, although in the 1870s he traveled for four years to the Far West including the Pacific Coast and the... Read full biography
Best known for "trompe l'oeil" or highly realistic still life painting, especially hanging game, George Cope spent most of his life around the Brandywine River Valley in West Chester, Pennsylvania, although in the 1870s he traveled for four years to the Far West including the Pacific Coast and the Plains. Titles of his work included A Spur of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Falls of the Turnchuck River, Washington Territory. He was an avid hunter and outdoorsman. Cope began his formal training... Read full biography
Best known for "trompe l'oeil" or highly realistic still life painting, especially hanging game, George Cope spent most of his life around the Brandywine River Valley in West Chester, Pennsylvania, although in the 1870s he traveled for four years to the Far West including the Pacific Coast and the Plains. Titles of his work included A Spur of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Falls of the Turnchuck River, Washington Territory. He was an avid hunter and outdoorsman. Cope began his formal training in 1876 with German landscape painter Herman Herzog, but in 1887 switched to "trompe l'oeil" still lifes as his primary subject when he saw the success with this style of other artists such as William Harnett. This subject matter was new to the... Read full biography
Best known for "trompe l'oeil" or highly realistic still life painting, especially hanging game, George Cope spent most of his life around the Brandywine River Valley in West Chester, Pennsylvania, although in the 1870s he traveled for four years to the Far West including the Pacific Coast and the Plains. Titles of his work included A Spur of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Falls of the Turnchuck River, Washington Territory. He was an avid hunter and outdoorsman. Cope began his formal training in 1876 with German landscape painter Herman Herzog, but in 1887 switched to "trompe l'oeil" still lifes as his primary subject when he saw the success with this style of other artists such as William Harnett. This subject matter was new to the United States and was introduced in the mid 19th century by German emigre artists who had been much influenced by th... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (4)
All MuseumsButler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990