Margaret Coen
| Margaret Coen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Margaret Agnes Coen April 4, 1909 Yass, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | August 27, 1993 (aged 84) St Ives, New South Wales |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | Kincoppal Convent, Australia |
| Known for | Painting, drawing |
| Notable work |
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| Spouse(s) | Douglas Stewart |
Margaret Coen (1909-1993) was an Australian artist, known for her watercolours, paintings of flowers, landscapes and still life works. Her paintings and personal papers are held in national collections.
Margaret Agnes Coen was born in Yass, NSW on 4 April 1909. She attended Kincoppal Convent in Elizabeth Bay where she studied drawing with Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo.
After leaving school she attended Dattilo-Rubbo’s city day class for women. After about a year she began studying at the Royal Art Society’s night classes.
In 1930 she met artist Norman Lindsay who became her mentor and introduced her to water colours.
Coen worked as a commercial artist while continuing to attend art classes in the evenings. Her involvement with Circular Quay’s artistic community led to her meeting the artist Edmund Arthur Harvey and he painted her portrait in 1932. Coen began working with watercolor and in 1934 she exhibited her work with the Australian Watercolor Institute.
In 1938 she had her first one person exhibition at the Rubery Bennett Art Gallery. She continued painting and exhibiting until a year or so before her death.
Paintings by Coen are held in public collections at the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, S.H. Ervin Gallery Collection and a hand painted silk map is in the State Library of New South Wales collection. The largest archive of her work, including paintings originally purchased by Howard Hinton for the Armidale Teachers College, is in the New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale.
Coen's papers are in the manuscript collection at the State Library of NSW. Seventeen watercolour paintbrushes used by Coen from 1970-1993 are in the National Museum of Australia Collection. A smaller collection of her archive is held by the Library and Archive of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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