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
1941+: Mexico
Array
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
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
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
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
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
Eleanor Coen and Max Kahn Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
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