Eleanor Coen

Artist Details

• First Name Eleanor
• Maiden Name Coen
• Alternate Name(s) Eleanor Coen Kahn
• Surname Coen
• Spouse’s Full Name Max Kahn
• Names and Birth Years of Children Katie (1949-?) Noah (1951-?)
• Birth Date October 21, 1916
• Birth Place Normal, illinois
• Death Date July 9, 2010
• Death Place Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
• Residence(s) late 1940s-early 1950s: 1305 W 54th Place, Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois
  
  after 1953: 1759 N. Cleveland Ave. Chicago, Illinois
  
  1959: Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Studio Location(s) studio with Isadore Weinger and Max Kahn
• Categories Draftsman, Lithographer, Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
• Training Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
  1941: graduated School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Boris Anisfeld, Francis Chapin and Max Kahn
  San Miguel de Allende Summer School, Mexico
  Oxbow Summer School of Art, Saugatuck, Michigan
  
• Relevant Travel 1941+: Mexico
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History February 2-11, 1938: Annual Exhibition of the Art Students League of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  November 4-December 5, 1943: The Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Eleanor Coen and Max Kahn, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; To the Market; Drying Nets; David; Valley by the Ocean; Tortilla Makers; Landscape near Mexico City; Friday in Patscuaro
  
  1946: Print Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
  
  April 19-Jun 14, 1946: Lithographs by Eleanor Coen, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  May 14-July 14, 1946: Lithographs by Eleanor Coen, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1947: Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C.
  
  1947-1951: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1948: North Shore Art League Exhibition, Winnetka, Illinois
  
  1951: One-woman Exhibition, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
  
  August 1, 1967: Junior Museum: Eleanor Coen, Painter, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  September 8-October 14, 2006: Max Kahn & Eleanor Coen: Contemplating a Roller: Major Print Works, 1936-1960, Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, Illinois; Untitled (Mexican Icons), circa 1943, lithograph; Lottery Tickets, 1942, lithograph
  
  June 26-August 21, 2010: Ox-Bow Centennial: Historic, Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, Illinois; Saugatuck, 1944, lithograph
• Collections Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Bernard Friedman Collection, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
  
  Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  
  Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  
  Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  
  Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paula, Brazil
  
  New Britain Museum, New Britain, Connecticut
  
  Philadelphia (PA) Museum of Fine Art National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
  
  San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
  
  Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
  
  University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
• Publications Komaiko, Jean R. “The Artist—and the Woman” Chicago’s Sunday American (February 25, 1962); accessed on the artist’s website, E. Coen: The Artist and the Woman, www.eleanorcoen.com/ Max Kahn. Eleanor Coen: Contemplating a Roller: Major Print Works, 1936–1960. Essay by Barbara Jaffe. Chicago: Corbett and Dempsey, 2006. Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Paths to the Press, Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1010-1960. Kansas State University Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1996 Snite Museum of Art, Women of the Taller De Grafica Popular, University of Notre Dame, 2007 Tezontle, El Taller De Graphica Popular, Humberto Musacchio, Fondo De Cultura Economica, 2007 Translation from Spanish by McCalla, Maline Gilbert, Cossio del Pomar in San Miguel de Allende ImpreColor S.A. de C. C.V., Santiago de Queretaro, Qro. 2007 Costa, Gina, Para la Gente, Art, Politics, and Cultural Identity of the Taller De Graphica Popular, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 2009
• Awards 1941: James Nelson Raymond Traveling Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [first woman to win this award] – used it to go to Mexico with husband and artist Julio de Diego
  
  1948: Purchase Prize, North Shore Art League Exhibition, Winnetka, Illinois
  
  1952: Philadelphia Print Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1953: American Color Print Society
• Archive(s) Eleanor Coen and Max Kahn Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
• Other Occupation(s) waited tables at Marshall Field’s while a student at SAIC
  
  1939-40: WPA/FAP, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1950-1958: Teacher, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  taught at Ox-Bow Summer School, Saugatuck, Michigan
• Website(s) website on the artist
  
  page on the website for Bernard Friedman Collection, Modernism in the City
  
  Wikipedia page
• Biography a pioneer in color lithography before it was taught at School of the Art Instiutte of Chciaog