Georgett Coolidge

Artist Details

• First Name Georgett
• Middle Name E
• Maiden Name Robinson
• Surname Coolidge
• Spouse’s Full Name Walter Griggs Coolidge married 1872; Harvard educated engineer and bridge builder; had come to Chicago in the mid-1860s and went to work for the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. He then took a job with the American Bridge Company. In 1888 Coolidge became the president of the Chicago Copper Refining Company. Real estate holdings. Died circa 1924
• Birth Date March 27, 1850
• Birth Place Brooklyn, New York
• Death Date April 16, 1929
• Death Place Lyndon, Vermont
• Residence(s) 4752 Kimbark Ave., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1924-1929: Lyndon, Vermont
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  Lyndon, Vermont
• Categories Watercolorist
• Training student of Mrs. A.V. Dodgshun and Robert Rascovich
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History January 26-February 21, 1897: Art Institute's Annual Exhibition of Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; A Country Road; A Street in Kenwood; A Bit of St. Joe; In the Pine Woods of New Jersey; The City; watercolors
  
  November 6-December 17, 1899: Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; A Stairway and Winter Sketches
  
  April 24-June 10, 1900: Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; A Stairway; Winter Sketches
  
  January 26-February 12, 1897: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; A Country Road; A Street in Kenwood, watercolor; A Bit of St. Joe, watercolor; In the Pine Woods of New Jersey, watercolor; The City, watercolor, Collection of Miss Bessie Potter
  
  May 7-June 16, 1907: Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of Water-Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; A Michigan Road
  
  February 2-28, 1909: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Residence on Greenwood Ave., watercolor
  
  May 9-June 7, 1911: Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Stairway, the Lee Mansion, Marblehead
  
  March 31-April 20, 1904: Chicago Architectural Club Seventeenth Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; A Stairway; A Stairway
  
  Art Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  New York Water Color Club
• Memberships The Studio, Chicago, Illinois; secretary 1897