Elizabeth Coy

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  • Elizabeth
  • Anna
  • Coy
  • Annie Coy
  • Coy
  • n/a
  • n/a
  • December 24, 1851
  • Rockford, Illinois
  • July 12, 1930
  • Rockford, Illinois
  • 127 N. Third St., Rockford, Illinois
  • Rockford, Illinois
  • 1901-1903: Van Dyck Studios, New York
  • Painter-Oil, Pastelist, Watercolorist
  • 1869: graduated East Rockford High School, Rockford, Illinois
    Art Students’ League, New York, New York              
    1869-1875: New York School of Art, New York, New York, student of William M. Chase and Robert Henri
    Student of Frank Vincent Du Mond, Alexander Robinson
    Holland
    Paris, France
  • Array
  • 1893: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois

    1898: 3rd Annual Exhibition of the Rockford Sketch Club, Rockford, Illinois

    Louvre Galleries, Paris, France

    American Artists Professional League, New York, New York

    October 19-November 26, 1905: Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Still-life-Ducks, oil

    October 16-November 29, 1906: Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Old Housewife (Woman Peeling Apples), oil on canvas

    May 7-June 7, 1914: Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Interior, Volendam, watercolor; Portrait, pastel

    Rockford Art Association, Rockford, Illinois
  • Rockford Art Association, Rockford, Illinois

    Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois

    Rockford Women's Club, Rockford, Illinois
  • Langa, Helen et al. American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945. Rutgers University Press, 2005.
  • American Artists Professional League

    Mendelssohn Club

    Rockford Art Association

    Rockford Arts and Crafts Society; president, 1915/1916

    Rockford Woman’s Club [life member]
  • 1901-1905: head of Art Department, Rockford College

    1913: founding member and gallery director, Rockford Art Guild

    educator
  • Parents: William (Harlaxton, England April 28, 1813-December 15, 1885 Guilford, Illinois) and Isabella Rollins Ziebach Coy (Buffalo, Pennsylvania February 20, 1822-July 27, 1908 Guilford, Illinois) ; married April 12, 1847 in Winnebago County, Illinois.

    Siblings:  Emma Coy (principal of Hall School); William Coy of Guilford; Dr. Robert Edwin Coy (1848-1905) of Guildford, Illinois